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Black is Beautiful

It is raw and fresh garlic that is dehydrated over time and presents a
host of health benefits that few know are worth more than regular garlic.
Black garlic for you

e love garlic! Then the conversion of acids and sugars compounds that constitute it
again, who doesn’t? to create compounds that give would make for an interesting
WSure, it might not be these foods a darker hue and a nugget. Don’t worry, we’ve got
the thing to pop into your mouth strong flavour minus the pungent the juicy bits, too, the recipes,
just before a date but it’s flavour odour of regular garlic. Black garlic coming up!
and health benefits are enough to is thus born from a controlled Black garlic is produced when
get you hooked. But what if we high-temperature, high-humidity heads or separated cloves of regular
told you that you could have your process over a period of time garlic are aged in an environment
garlic and eat it too, and kiss and which converts raw garlic to its of 80 to 90% controlled humidity
tell? Read on… dark form, aged to perfection. at 60 to 90° C for a period of
Ever wonder how foods like As a result of the ageing anywhere from two weeks to 90
steak and cookies get that distinctive process, black garlic contains more days. The fermentation causes the
flavour and aroma? The Maillard antioxidant compounds than raw cloves to turn a dark black and
reaction is responsible for garlic. Antioxidants, renders it a flavour more potent
as we know, have and an odour not so, than its
protective effects regular form. Its texture is sticky
against cell and soft and it's softer to chew.
damage and More so, it infuses it with a higher
fight free amount of bioactive compounds
radicals in the like antioxidants due to the Maillard
body. Which makes black reaction. This is partly because
garlic a super ingredient allicin, the compound that gives
to introduce to your garlic its pungent odour when
lifestyle. Before we crushed or bitten into, is converted
get to the into antioxidant compounds like
health alkaloids and flavonoids. So, while
benefits you may have a lower allicin
of black content in black garlic, you have
garlic – more health benefits awaiting you,
and there’s as compared to regular garlic, such
plenty, you will as improved brain health, lower
discover – we cholesterol, better heart pumping,
thought the ageing preventive liver damage and
process and the bioactive reduction in blood sugar levels,

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