Garlic | Spices in the Kitchen | Andrew Weil, M.D.

Описание: Garlic offers a combination of flavonoids and sulfur molecules that act as antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. These compounds also offer antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties. Nutritionally, garlic is an excellent source of manganese, and provides vitamin B6, vitamin C and selenium. Garlic can also help to improve the metabolism of iron.

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Video Transcript: Garlic-Spices in the Kitchen

Garlic is an old world plant, but it’s widely used throughout the world. We have fresh garlic here, this is dried garlic. I almost always use fresh garlic; I love it in cooking. One thing that’s important to know is that the active principle that does all the good things in garlic is called allicin, and it’s not present in garlic in this form. There’s an inactive precursor that turns into allicin when it is crushed and exposed to air. So it’s a good idea when you use fresh garlic to mash it, chop it and let it sit for a bit before you add it to the food, or use it. Garlic is an excellent all-around tonic, it’s good for the cardiovascular system, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol slightly, and it has antibiotic effects, antifungal effects. I think it is generally health protective, a very good thing to use. I can’t imagine life without garlic. I tend to add it near the end of cooking because almost anything you do to garlic including drying it or preparing it in supplements, or cooking it lowers the allicin content and potency. So I think fresh garlic is the best way to use it and then to add it near the end of cooking. And I like some raw garlic in things like salad dressings. A very good thing to eat at the onset of a cold; really helps the body fight respiratory infections.