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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Why you should be eating more garlic!

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This spe­cial food is a sta­ple in every Trin­ab­gon­ian kitchen, we put in our pep­per sauce, green sea­son­ing, chokas, talka­ris and cur­ries. Gar­lic is well-known for its pun­gent flavour and is used com­mon­ly in dish­es, adding a lev­el of com­plex­i­ty and depth to our favourite savoury dish­es. To our ben­e­fit, gar­lic has more than a few amaz­ing qual­i­ties that will sur­prise you and will make you want to eat more.

Best Ways to use Gar­lic

Best Ways to Use

Cooked

Roast­ed

Raw

Tea

1) Gar­lic is a nu­tri­tious pow­er­house

Gar­lic nu­tri­tion con­tains count­less vi­tal nu­tri­ents — flavonoids, oligosac­cha­rides, amino acids, al­licin and sul­phur.

Ac­cord­ing to the U.S. De­part­ment Of Agri­cul­ture, Agri­cul­tur­al Re­search Ser­vice de­part­ment, a clove of raw gar­lic nu­tri­tion the fol­low­ing top nu­tri­ents found in this spice:

4.5 calo­ries

1 gram car­bo­hy­drates

0.2 gram pro­tein

0.1 gram fiber

0.1 mil­ligram man­ganese

0.9 mil­ligram vi­t­a­min C

5.4 mil­ligrams cal­ci­um

0.4 mi­cro­gram se­le­ni­um

2) Gar­lic Can Com­bat Sick­ness, In­clud­ing the Com­mon Cold

A well-known rem­e­dy in Trinidad is to swal­low an en­tire gar­lic clove as soon as your body be­gins feel­ing any signs of the cold or virus. Ac­cord­ing to the high­ly re­spect­ed data­base from the Na­tion­al In­sti­tutes of Health, a 12-week study found that a dai­ly gar­lic sup­ple­ment re­duced the num­ber of colds by 63% com­pared to a place­bo. Fur­ther­more, the av­er­age length of cold symp­toms was al­so re­duced by 70%, from 5 days in the place­bo group to just 1.5 days in the gar­lic group. With virus­es and colds con­stant­ly around, maybe you should give gar­lic a chance.

3) Boosts im­mu­ni­ty

Gar­lic tea is not lim­it­ed to its raw state or in cooked in­to dish­es, you can try gar­lic sup­ple­ments.

Gar­lic is packed with an­ti­fun­gal and an­tibac­te­r­i­al prop­er­ties for ex­am­ple one is called al­licin. The ac­tive com­pound Al­licin is very use­ful be­cause of its nat­ur­al an­tibac­te­r­i­al and an­ti­fun­gal prop­er­ties and is known to strength­en the im­mune sys­tem sig­nif­i­cant­ly. A cup of gar­lic tea a day can aid ward­ing off in­fec­tions and oth­er pathogens.

For Skin and Hair

Col­la­gen is one of the newest sup­ple­ment crazes due to its rep­u­ta­tion for im­prov­ing skin age­ing. Gar­lic al­so con­tain skin in­vig­o­rat­ing prop­er­ties that de­plete the ef­fect of col­la­gen de­ple­tion. More­so, for those af­fect­ed by skin ail­ments such as eczema and dry skin, gar­lic can help pro­tect trig­gers. Crushed gar­lic can be used for treat­ing the scalp for hair loss pre­ven­tion and even hair loss re­ver­sal.


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