Description
Garlic is used in cooking as a natural flavoring. They have a characteristic aroma and flavor that usually accompanies certain dishes of Mediterranean cuisine.
Garlic is much more than a condiment, it's a disease scare loaded with nutritional properties and health benefits. Its regular consumption can help to improve digestion, to better absorb nutrients from food, and also optimizes the functions of the pancreas and liver.
Garlic cloves contain between 0.2% and 0.3% of essential oil: garlicin, alliin or allylcysteine sulfoxide (1%), which when hydrolyzed by alliinase produces allicin.
It also contains fructoses, oligosaccharides that feed the beneficial intestinal microbiota, related to good general health.
It also has enzymes -peroxidases and lysozymes, among others- indispensable for the medicinal action of garlic to occur.
4 heads of El Masove garlic (250g)