Garlic: good and bad
Wild garlic grows almost everywhere, and the history of its cultivation totals at least 5000 years.In India, it was used exclusively as a medicinal product, in Egypt, Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire - also as a seasoning, Pythagoras even called it "the king of spices".
In Medieval Europe, which, as it is known, had two problems - unsanitary conditions and inquisition, garlic saved, in either case - helped to fight infections and "scared off witches".
This attention to garlic was caused by its specific smell and taste, but most importantly - indisputable healing properties, which in those days could only be explained by magic.What place does it occupy in the modern kitchen, what is the use of garlic and can it do harm?
chemical composition
Nutritional value:
- Calories: 149 kcal
- Protein: 6.5 g
- Fat: 0.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 29.9 grams
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- Dietary fiber: 1.5 g
- Organic acids: 0.1 g
- Water: 60 g
- unsaturated fatty acids: 0.1 g
- Mono- and disaccharides: 3.9 c
- Starch:26 g
- Ash: 1,5 g
- Saturated fatty acids: 0.1 g
Vitamins:
- VitaminPP: 1,2 mg
- Vitamin B1( thiamine): 0.08 mg
- Vitamin B2( riboflavin) 0.08 mg
- Vitamin B5( pantothenic): 0.596 mg
- Vitamin B6( pyridoxine): 0,6 mg
- Vitamin B9( folic) 3
- mcg Vitamin C: 10 mg
- Vitamin E( FE): 0.3 mg
- Vitamin K( phylloquinone): 1.7 ug
- Vitamin PP( niacin equivalent): 2.8 mg Choline
- : 23.2 mg
Macronutrients:
- Calcium 180 mg Magnesium
- :
- 30 mg Sodium 17 mg Potassium
- : 260 mg Phosphorus
- :100 mg
- Chlp: 30 mg
Microelements:
- Iron 1.5 mg Zinc
- : 1.025 mg
- Iodine 9 mcg
- Copper 130 mcg
- Manganese: 0.81 mg
- Selenium:14.2 μg
- Cobalt: 9 μg
The most unique ingredient that gives garlic a unique taste and aroma is a rare allicin substance.It is the most powerful antioxidant known to science.More precisely, not allicin itself, and the product of its decomposition is sulfenic acids.
Sulfenic acids instantly bind the "free radicals" that are in the vicinity, responsible for aging.In no other product, antioxidants are so active.
Garlic is rich in essential oils and vitamins, the effect of which on the body is discussed below.
Benefits of garlic
Useful properties of garlic are unique, this is due not only to the presence in it of a huge amount of useful substances, but also with their high biological activity.
This is a home pharmacy that helps to treat the following ailments:
- thrombosis;
- arrhythmia;
- pulmonary diseases, including tuberculosis;
- viral infections;
- is an inflammatory disease;
- constipation;
- hemorrhoids.
Garlic has anthelminthic and disinfecting action, suppresses fungal infections, including candidiasis, which causes so much inconvenience in pregnancy.It dilates blood vessels, lowers blood pressure.
For pregnant women, it is especially important that the garlic contains folic acid, which is so important for bearing a healthy, intelligent baby.It would seem that this herbal product can replace many medications, but everything is not so simple.
Garlic has such a pronounced healing effect that it must be treated as a medicine, and it should be used with caution.If the doctor did not indicate obvious contraindications to garlic, you can safely use it in the first semester - of course, in small quantities, one - two slices a day.
Harmful garlic
Any useful product action can turn into an undesirable effect: for example, a remarkable property of thinning the blood and getting rid of thrombosis is dangerous in the last months of pregnancy, and especially - with complications in childbirth.Nature intelligently prepares the body of a woman for childbirth, increasing the coagulability of blood - so that there is not a lot of blood loss, and wounds quickly dragged out.Intervene on the latest terms in this process would be reckless.
What is harmful besides garlic?In the third trimester of pregnancy, it causes increased fetal activity, which, however, can be regarded in two ways.In the people it is believed that the child does not like the smell and taste of garlic, and scientists note the activating effect on the heart muscle.
For those who have digestive disorders, especially accompanied by high acidity, it is necessary to consult a specialist about whether to exclude garlic completely or to limit its use.
Garlic is extremely dangerous with simultaneous administration of anticoagulants, as it enhances their effect.Not everyone knows that it is contraindicated in hypothyroidism, because it binds iodine, which is already in short supply, reduces the effectiveness of the drugs taken.
Important : children are given garlic in small amounts, mostly as a preventive measure against viral diseases, and this is correct.It is forbidden to children in the event that there are nasal bleedings or acidity of gastric juice is increased.
Recommendations
If doctors do not prohibit garlic due to serious health problems, one or two lobules a day will have a beneficial effect on the body.
Pregnant can recommend the following: allow yourself a clove of garlic a day in the early stages, and in the last trimester from it should be abandoned, even if "really want".Mom's and baby's health is more important than a whim.
