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No, Garlic Is Not Healthiest When it’s Raw. (Ferment It! Here’s How)
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If you’re trying to take advantage of all garlic has to offer, you have to eat it raw.
Garlic contains a property called alliin, which turns into something called allicin once it’s been crushed and exposed to air. Allicin is responsible for all of garlic’s amazing features and its distinctive smell. However, allicin has a very short life span. It is most potent 10 minutes after a clove has been crushed and almost completely gone after 30 minutes. Even though it makes food taste wonderful, cooking destroys nearly all of the health benefits in a clove of garlic.
But even in its raw state, our bodies cannot digest and process all of garlic’s nutrients. However, lacto-fermented garlic far surpasses the nutritional value of fresh garlic. In other words, if we want to experience all of the health benefits in a clove of garlic, we can maximize it through consuming fermented garlic.
The antioxidant activity of fermented garlic is much higher than that of fresh. The fermentation process also produces high levels of hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide, something our bodies produce naturally, eliminates harmful bacteria, viruses and fungi. As a result, fermented garlic is one of nature’s most powerful antibiotics.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/alternative-health/no-garlic-is-not-healthiest-when-its-raw-ferment-it-heres-how/
If you cut up fresh garlic into pill size cubes, you can wash down the chunks with water with no odor forming in the mouth or oozing from the skin.