Does cooked Garlic still have benefits for you? How much? - GoFuckYourself.com

AsylumN · 03-04-2005, 07:11 PM

I sometimes like to take garlic cloves and baste it with olive oil and then put it in the oven untill its golden brown, and eat it like that. When you do that, there is almost no smell whatsoever.

Now, does anyone have any documents or know for sure if doing it like that has any of the benefits that garlic has?

AdultNex · 03-04-2005, 07:13 PM

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As near as I can figure out, you lose very little in cooking it. The first thing you would lose would be the allicin and its antibiotic properties. Heat breaks it down rather quickly, as do digestive chemicals. What it breaks down into; however, is a soup of sulphur compounds that are antibiotic also. Most of the health benefits from garlic come from the breakdown compounds, rather than allicin itself, anyway, as allicin breaks down in the body and it is the breakdown components that get into the bloodstream. They're the ones that really do most of the good. Even Kyolic Aged Garlic Extract, which has been soaked in alcohol and other chemicals for nearly two years still has anticoagulant effects as well as some other benefits, and it has no allicin left in it at all. Fresh garlic is better all the way around, cooked or raw.

Cooked garlic would seem to have less immediate antibiotic value. Doctors have indicated that the smellier the garlic, the better it works, as the smelly compounds seem to do the most work. Some of the helpful compounds are probably destroyed during the cooking process and dissipate in the form of cooking odors. On the plus side, you can eat a lot more cooked garlic than you can raw garlic, at least most people can. I usually eat a clove or two raw with cooked meals, anyway. I suspect that you do lose a little with cooking, but are able to make up for it by being able to eat more of it. For a more complete discussion check out the Health Benefits page of oue website. Back to Questions

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InkedUpMess · 03-04-2005, 07:18 PM

Cooking/pasturizing anything begins breaking down the nutrients. So the short answer is yes. It will still hold medicinal properties, but what ratio is lost I do not know off top of my head.

AsylumN · 03-04-2005, 10:08 PM

Thanks guys. I love garlic, I might as well get the benefits too.

DateDoc · 03-04-2005, 11:12 PM

It also depends on how you cook it and not just the fact that you cooked it. Also, raw garlic can harm your digestive tract.

Spunky · 03-04-2005, 11:22 PM

Garlic is good for the heart

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