If you are afraid of the flu or a cold, along with tea, honey and lemon, be sure to eat garlic. You will strengthen your immunity, and due to its antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiparasitic and antioxidant properties, this food will keep infections away from you.
The healing properties of garlic have been known since ancient times, but along with many benefits, there is also one unpleasant phenomenon - the unpleasant smell of garlic can be felt for hours after eating.
So that you don't avoid garlic because of its unpleasant smell, as it says Vecernji list, there is a solution.
The reason garlic's strong smell lingers for so long after eating is because garlic's sulfur compounds are released into the bloodstream during food digestion. That's why refreshing mouthwashes won't help in trying to camouflage the distinctive smell of garlic.
But some foods will. Researchers claim that you should eat apples, lettuce, celery, potatoes, parsley, mint, basil or mushrooms with garlic or after a meal with garlic because these foods contain phenols, compounds that will react in a chemical reaction with sulfur from garlic and thus neutralizing the strong smell.
The researchers proved this with a device that analyzes molecules based on their mass, and after consuming the mentioned foods, the level of sulfur was significantly lower in the volunteers' breath.
The most phenols are found in mint, but the scientists were also surprised that the lettuce leaf, which has significantly less phenols, effectively suppresses the smell of garlic.
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