Express News Service
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food.” These are the famous words of Hippocrates, known as the father of Western medicine. He often prescribed garlic to treat all possible ailments, and now many researchers have proven the massive health benefits of our very own superfood — garlic.
It’s used in a variety of cuisines worldwide and extensively in India. Garlic contains Sulphur compounds called Allicin, which impart a strong pungent flavour and positive health effects on human beings. Garlic is a plant from the onion family, which has a big head called a bulb.
Each bulb contains around 12 to 15 cloves. It contains a good amount of manganese, Vitamin B6, Sulphur, Vitamin C, Selenium, Potassium and other trace minerals along with fibre which acts as a prebiotic for the growth of our healthy gut bacteria.