The main difference:

1. One-head garlic is actually a garlic bulb whose plant is undernourished, stunted, and unable to produce multiple cloves. Its pungent flavor is unique, has some medicinal value, cancer prevention effect is higher than the ordinary split clove garlic.

2, due to the one-head garlic without cloves, garlic for a whole, so the garlic contains the active ingredient allicin than ordinary garlic content is higher, antibacterial effect is also more obvious.

3, one-head garlic spicy flavor, rich in nutrients than ordinary cloves of garlic.

Eating value:

Garlic is a common vegetable and seasoning, can be eaten raw, can also be processed into a variety of food or as a cooking seasoning. Garlic is a good meal, stewed fish, stewed meat can be used as a seasoning to remove the fishy flavor, eaten raw or mixed vegetables with garlic can be flavored sterilization, increase appetite, can also be processed into salty, sweet, fragrant, sour and other flavors of sugar garlic, vinegar garlic and other stains.

Extended information

Eating notes:

(1), mashed to eat health effects

Garlic contains allicin and allicin enzyme and other effective substances, after crushed they will be in contact with each other, thus forming a health effect of the Allicin. Therefore, it is best to crush garlic into puree and eat it.

(2), eaten raw sterilization effect

In the heating process, play a role in the antibacterial organic sulfide content will gradually decline, the higher the temperature, the faster the decline, so eaten cooked garlic can not be very good to play a sterilization effect. The garlic is a healthy way of eating when you use garlic in your gazpacho and eat dumplings with vinegar and a small amount of sesame oil.

(3), daily raw food should not be too much

Allicin has a certain stimulating effect on the stomach and intestines, eat too much garlic, easy to cause acute gastritis, long-term overconsumption is also easy to cause eye discomfort.

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