Garlic, also known as garlic, commonly known as garlic, has a pungent smell, is one of the most commonly used kitchen cooking seasoning vegetables, and can also be used as medicine. Due to the differences in food culture, southerners generally eat garlic as an ingredient or pickled, while northerners can eat garlic raw. Noodles, jiaozi and steamed bread all like garlic. So, is garlic better eaten raw or cooked?

what are the benefits of eating garlic?

1. Anti-inflammatory and sterilization

Garlic is rich in allicin, which has the effect of resisting diseases and killing bacteria. It has been found in experiments that mixing garlic into juice can destroy bacteria in experimental containers within 3 minutes.

2. Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

Nowadays, our living conditions are getting better and better, and some technologies are developed and can compete with the international market. However, in our life, because people have some bad living habits, the number of people suffering from vascular diseases is increasing year by year, and there are also many health lovers who know the benefits of garlic very well, so garlic is called the "traffic police" of blood vessels. If our blood vessels are blocked, this "traffic policeman" will go to hell to pay, which can ensure and inhibit the formation of thrombus, prevent the occurrence of arteriosclerosis, and bring great help to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

3. Reduce blood sugar?

Garlic can promote the secretion of insulin well, and increase the absorption of glucose by tissues and cells, which can quickly increase the glucose content of human body and regulate the blood sugar content well, thus effectively controlling blood sugar.

4. Anti-aging?

Garlic also has anti-aging effect, because it contains some antioxidant substances comparable to vitamins C and E, which can play a very good antioxidant role.

There are two ways to eat garlic: raw and cooked. How to eat garlic is the best? Is it better to eat raw or cooked?

The antibacterial effect of raw garlic is remarkable

In a whole garlic, there is no allicin, but once it is crushed or cut, it will be left for 1-15 minutes, and allicin will be produced when alliin contained in cells meets alliinase. Allicin is the main source of spicy taste of garlic, and it also has significant antibacterial effect, which has inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Candida albicans and other bacteria.

compared with other types of garlic, purple garlic has better antibacterial effect, because it contains higher active ingredient allicin, so it tastes more spicy.

cooked garlic has a poor antibacterial effect, but it also has a certain health care effect

in life, many people like to use garlic to explode pots or stew soup. When garlic is heated (above 8℃), the content of organic sulfide will gradually decrease, so the antibacterial effect of cooked garlic is far less than that of raw garlic. It is suggested that when cooking garlic, adding appropriate amount of sugar can reduce the loss of allicin.

Although the cooked garlic has poor antibacterial effect, it also has certain health care effects. By obtaining its rich microelements such as selenium, zinc and vitamins, it can play other health care functions.

Therefore, it is best to eat garlic raw, which has higher nutritional value for human body, because cooked garlic will soon lose its allicin effect after heating. I suggest you eat it raw. Besides, it is best to mash raw garlic instead of cutting it into minced garlic with a knife, and it is best to leave it for about 15 minutes. Because this can make alliin and alliinase combine with air to produce more allicin, which has better effect on human body.

It should be noted that although garlic has many health-care effects and functions, it is not suitable for everyone. Patients with non-bacterial diarrhea, liver disease, stomach disease and cerebral hemorrhage had better not eat garlic, and people with an empty stomach and people who are allergic to garlic should not eat garlic. In addition, the more garlic you eat, the better. It is recommended to eat 2-3 cloves each time, and do not eat more than once a day.