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How To Eat Raw Garlic (And Why!)
Garlic is well known as a natural health remedy that has long been used to treat various ailments. It is extremely easy to source in most countries and can be consumed cooked or fresh. It is most easily included in your food or can be eaten on its own.
One of the most interesting – and lesser known – things about garlic is that the way it is prepared greatly affects the availability of the various healing components. Two of garlic’s component molecules – alliin and alliinase – are present in fresh garlic but stored in different cells.
Crushing the garlic causes a reaction in about ten seconds that creates allicin – a potent animicrobial and antifungal. However allicin is unstable and degrades completely within a day, or perhaps longer if refrigerated. Allicin is also destroyed by heat. Crushing the cloves, then eating the garlic raw within the next few minutes, will provide the greatest benefits. [2]
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