Bitter Food Hero #7: Garlic
What is the most powerful bulbous plant? It’s garlic all day because it tastes deliciously bitter but it’s bitterly good for you
Test yourself, try gnawing on a single garlic bread wedge.
You won’t. Can’t!
Garlic is too morish to deny a sixth or seventh helping.
However, is the raw garlic bulb bitter or umami flavored?
Both.
It’s classed as having a sharp, pungent flavor that’s disagreeable, yet deeply bitter.
The reason garlic earns its spot on the list of the best bitter foods is thanks to the stinging sensation you’ll taste when it first hits your grill.
Steeped in thousands of years of history, garlic was initially medicine, but it later became something that makes food light up the pleasure centers in your cerebral cortex.
Whether you’re French, Asian, or Italian, here’s why garlic is the best bulb you can add to every type of cuisine.
Garlic is all heart
Your internal engine room is oiled on the grease of garlic butter.
Garlic oil protects your ticker against disease if you have diabetes and the bulbs themselves have an abundance of heart-healthy antioxidants.
The aged version of the bulb even lowered blood pressure further helping to ease the workload on your ribbed pump house.
Sniffle Stopper
Sprinkle the garlic into the old wives’ chicken soup because it may be what prevents you from blowing snot rockets that leave your hooter red raw.
Garlic slashes the likelihood of you getting a cold by up to 63%, and even reduces the duration of cold symptoms by 70% .
If you want to have more days on the tools and fewer sick days binge watching Netflix, garlic will tip the scales in your favor.
KO Infection
The vampiric myths around garlic exist as it’s seemingly a natural repellent against decay.
It’s been used to treat potentially fatal infections by making germs harmless without killing them
Rather humane really.
Garlic extract is edible dietary solution to pathogenic bacteria resistant to a multitude of drugs, helping people to overcome urinary tract infections and even Lyme disease.
Forget the apple, garlic is what keeps the whitecoats away.
Smart breath
While garlic’s garbage breath may be a downside, at least it’ll leave you with the brains to brush your fangs.
Garlic may protect against losing your marbles as you get older, which could be thanks to its high levels of antioxidants.
Garlicky Go-Getter
How can you eat more garlic?
Just marry an Italian, or someone French or anyone from anywhere in the world partial to eating.
Remember to crush, chop, or dice that garlic at the start of the cooking process then leave it to sit in the open air while you do the rest of the prep.
This improves the release the healthy sulphureous compounds, such as allicin.
Allicin makes garlic healthy enough to be considered anti-everything: anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antimicrobial, anticancer and anti-heart disease.
Bust out the garlic press and add at the very end of the cooking process rather than depriving yourself at the start by frying it off on a high heat.
Treat it gently and it’ll treat you with equal care.