We’ve always heard about the wonderful health benefits of garlic over and over again, we so love it that we use it daily. Some persons even eat it raw while others use it in cooking and in making medicines… whichever way, garlic is used.
Lots of times when we buy garlic, we buy the already powdered one or sometimes the minced garlic in sachet. How much of minced garlic is there in a clove is a question many are asking. If that is your question, then chill as your questions on minced garlic to cloves will be answered in this post.
what is garlic
Garlic is a plant in the onion family that’s grown for it’s distinctive taste and health benefits.
Garlic is used widely as a flavouring in cooking because it have ability to bring taste to life. Apart from bringing taste to life, it also have massive health benefits. Garlic have been used as medicine throughout ancient and modern history.
Health benefits
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Garlic helps lowers blood pressure because it contains elements that stimulates the relaxation of blood vessels and causes the blood vessels to relax.
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Garlic helps boost the body’s immune system and increase the body’s ability to fight and keep off infections because it contains Alicin which have antimicrobial properties.
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Studies have also shown that garlic helps prevent the production of cancer cells.
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Garlic promotes detox by enhancing liver function. Garlic is rich in vitamin A, B, and C which enhances liver function. Due to it’s vitamin A content, garlic greatly improve eye sight and keeps a host of eye infections and diseases at bay. Due to it’s vitamin B content, garlic aids in DNA synthesis.
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A study in the university of Kuwait have shown that garlic lowers blood glucose level http://blood glucose level… because of this it is not very indicated in people with hypo blood glucose e.g diabetes patients http:// diabetes patients. because it can reduce their blood glucose level to detrimental level.
*Summary
Garlic confers various health benefits including anti hypertension and anti cancer properties, and it’s also very good for our circulatory system (heart and blood vessels) and immune system.
Clove of garlic
A clove of garlic is a piece of garlic from the bulb…it is a fragment of the garlic bulb. A garlic bulb is naturally made up to 10 or more cloves
How much minced garlic can be gotten from a clove of garlic
Mincing is chopping garlic into small pieces. Lots of times while using garlic to cook or for other purposes, it had to be minced. When minced, 1 clove of garlic equals 1/2 teaspoon, so 2 cloves equals 1 teaspoon, so 4 cloves will give 2 teaspoon of minced garlic.
Dried garlic
When dried, A clove of garlic become smaller, A clove of dried garlic will give an average of one eight of teaspoon of garlic powder ( we’re using average here because some cloves of garlic can be very big) so an average of 8 to 9 cloves of dried garlic will give a full teaspoon of garlic powder.
frequently asked questions
I’ve heard of the numerous health benefits of garlic and I’ve been eating it every, but it causes me to have bad breath, what do I do
Garlic have a very purgant smell, to avoid the bad breath associated with eating raw garlic, remove the green succulent part, they are the most purgant part…that will reduce the smell.
Does dried garlic still have the same health benefits as the raw one
Yes, dried garlic and raw garlic confers the same health benefits. The only difference is that the dried one have been dehydrated to preserve it.
conclusion
Garlic is confers numerous health benefits so much that we’ve so fallen in love with it that we use it daily.
Lots of times we buy the already minced garlic in sachets…an average clove of garlic will give 1/2 teaspoon of minced garlic