Garlic contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin C, carotene, sugar, volatile oil and other nutrients.
What does garlic do?
1, help? Three highs? decrease
1) Reduce blood lipid. Allicin can inhibit the formation of cholesterol micelles, inhibit the absorption of intestinal cholesterol, reduce the synthesis of liver cholesterol, and promote the decomposition of serum and liver triglycerides.
2) Conducive to the reduction of blood pressure. It's called. Vascular scavenger? Whether suffering from hypertension, diabetes or the general population, eating two cloves of garlic every day is helpful to lower blood pressure and dilate blood vessels.
3) It helps to lower blood sugar and promote insulin secretion. Garlic can also affect the synthesis of liver glycogen, improve the plasma insulin level, and has beneficial therapeutic effect on diabetic patients.
2, contribute to the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Garlic is pungent and warm, and has the effect of dispelling cold and warming. Garlic can inhibit arthritis. But garlic is only for cold and dampness, not for damp-heat arthritis.
3, help to alleviate? Asthma?
Asthma is due to physical weakness and exogenous cold evil, which hinders the excretion of pathogenic factors and affects the release of lungs. Honey can moisten the lungs and resolve phlegm, and garlic can inhibit bacteria and enhance immunity. The combination of these two foods can alleviate the symptoms of asthma.
Specific practice: use 60~90 tender garlic in spring, wash it, soak it in honey, and then seal it. Take one tablet a day after 6 months.
4. It has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects.
Allicin in garlic has antibacterial effect, and garlic juice can kill bacteria in the culture medium within 3 minutes.
Allicin can kill a variety of pathogenic microorganisms such as influenza virus and meningococcal virus.
How to eat garlic is the best.
1, raw or cooked
Eating raw garlic is better.
Garlic is best eaten raw and mashed garlic is best. Because garlic contains alliin and alliinase, two effective substances. Once garlic is crushed, they will contact each other to form allicin.
Allicin has a strong bactericidal effect, but it will soon lose its effect when it is heated, so it is better to eat garlic raw than boiled garlic.
2. Eat whole or chopped.
Chop and eat, the effect is better.
The efficacy of garlic is attributed to its many chemical components, mainly including sulfur-containing organic compounds and saponins. Sulfur-containing organic compounds are important active substances, mainly including allicin and allicin. There is no allicin in intact garlic, but after cutting or crushing, alliin contained in cells meets alliinase to produce catalytic cracking reaction.
Therefore, in order to better retain the effective components of garlic, it is suggested to chop or crush garlic and leave it for 15 minutes before eating or cooking.
How much is the best to eat every day?
2~3 petals.
Allicin can stimulate the stomach to some extent. Eating too much garlic raw can easily cause acute gastritis, and eating too much garlic for a long time can easily cause eye discomfort.
For people with poor gastrointestinal function, it is best not to exceed 1 valve every day; People with a good stomach, it is best to have 2~3 valves a day.