Reader Ms. Wang provided: For ten years, I have made "garlic soaked in vinegar" every year. The specific method is: peel off the old skin of garlic, only the tender skin is left, put it in a container, add white vinegar (the amount of white vinegar is better than garlic), add a proper amount of white sugar, and soak it for half a month before eating. My wife and I are over 80 years old now, and our blood pressure and blood lipids are normal. I don't know if it's the effect of vinegar soaking garlic.

Zhang Mingyu, an associate professor of cardiology in the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, commented that garlic has certain antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and vascular softening effects. Vinegar does have certain lipid-lowering and blood pressure-lowering effects. Therefore, readers' blood pressure and blood lipids are normal, which really has their credit.

But it is worth noting that garlic is a spicy hot food, and it is easy to get angry if you eat too much. The main component of vinegar is acetic acid. Although the spicy taste of garlic soaked in white vinegar and sugar is reduced, eating too much will easily increase the concentration of gastric acid, which may cause gastric mucosal damage and stomach pain. Therefore, it is recommended that you eat 2-3 cloves (about 3-5g) of medium-sized garlic cloves every day. In addition, because this prescription contains white sugar, it is not suitable for patients with diabetes and abnormal glucose tolerance.

(According to Life Times)

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