What are the functions of garlic?

Question

Hi. I'm just started to gain interested in cooking. When I observe how the people in south east Asia cooks, they often use garlic as an added recipe to make the food smells good. I just curious, besides to make to food smells good, why does people used garlic for? For what kind of purposes?

Answer 1

Culinary use:
mainly it gives great taste to the food overall. it helps to give out all the tastes of the ingredients put in a dish. plus its good for the health. when you're preparing a dish with spice in it you can put garlic.

Garlic is also used when you're marinating meat.

Garlic is most often used as a seasoning or a condiment. When crushed or finely chopped it yields allicin, a powerful antibiotic and anti-fungal compound (phytoncide). It also contains alliin, ajoene, enzymes, vitamin B, minerals, and flavonoids.

Garlic is widely used in many forms of cooking for its strong flavor, which is considered to enhance many other flavors. Depending on the form of cooking and the desired result, the flavor is either mellow or intense. It is often paired with onion, tomato, and/or ginger.

In culinary preparation, it is necessary to remove the parchment-like skin from individual cloves before chopping. Lightly crushing the cloves with the ball of the hand or flat of a knife makes this job much easier.

When eaten in quantity, garlic may be strongly evident in the diner's sweat and breath the following day. This is because garlic's strong smelling sulfur compounds are metabolized forming allyl methyl sulfide. Allyl methyl sulfide (AMS) cannot be digested and is passed into the blood. It is carried to the lungs and the skin where it is excreted. Since digestion takes several hours, and release of AMS several hours more, the effect of eating garlic may be present for a long time.

Hardneck garlic varieties feature a seedpod that grows atop a leafless stalk known as a "scape". Immature scapes are tender and edible. They are also known as "garlic spears", "stems", or "tops". Scapes generally have a milder taste than cloves. They are often used in stir frying or prepared like asparagus.

Answer 2

There's no end to the uses for garlic, from the mythical to the medical to the gastronomic. You really need to read, first, the Wikipedia article (linked below) and then some of the bumpf that's all over the Internet (I've provided a couple of links)

There are many kinds of garlic. Try to get to a gourmet store like Whole Foods (a the Time Warner Bldg in NYC and elsewhere), or look for an online shop, because in your average supermarket there will only be one or two varieties bui really there are dozens. In England most garlic comes from Spain (because of the climate) and food importers don't bother looking elsewhere; but there are zillions of other varieties that one would like to have a choice of. (I was at the Saturday food market in Chelsea the other day and there was a garlic stand.)

Answer 3

Grow Taller Tip 1 Eat at regular hours. Grow Taller Tip 2 Don't skip any meal Grow Taller Tip 3 Don't forget to eat breakfast. Always start the day with a well-rounded meal. Grow Taller Tip 4 Take the time to taste and to chew your food well. Grow Taller Tip 5 Vary your menu. Grow Taller Tip 6 Avoid pastries, sweets, crisps, soda drinks -anything that has little or no nutritious value. Grow Taller Tip 7 Beware of salt consumption. It can cause hypertension. Grow Taller Tip 8 Eat a lot of raw vegetables and fresh juice. Choose whole wheat bread. Grow Taller Tip 9 Drink six (6) to eight (8) glasses of water or vegetable juice or sugar-free juice per day. Grow Taller Tip 10 You should also drink milk. Grow Taller Tip 11 Eat good quality food supplements every day. Grow Taller Tip 12 After each meal you should rest. Don't start to work or exercise right after.

Answer 4

Garlic has been used for centuries in Asia & Europe. The Ancient Greeks & Romans used it in cooking & also used it in bathing & shaving also. Garlic not not only adds flavour to a dish but it also has health benefit as it a natural anti-spetic & has anti-viral properties, it also contains vitamin C & has been proven to reduce Chlorestorol.

Answer 5

it is nature's antibiotic! It's effective against bacteria that may be resistant to other antibiotics, and it helps stimulates the lymphatic system to throw off waste materials. Unlike other antibiotics, garlic does not destroy the body's normal flora. Instead, it has the ability to help stimulate cell growth and activity, thus rejuvenating all body functions. Garlic helps heart function by helping open up blood vessels and helps to reduce hypertension. It's a health-building and disease-preventing herb. Garlic is rich in potassium (regulates heart rhythm), zinc (antioxidant), Vitamin-A (enhances immunity), Vitamin-C (helps reduce cholesterol, high blood pressure and may prevent artherosclerosis), and selenium (maintains healthy heart). Garlic is the ultimate health-building and disease-preventing herb.

Answer 6

Antiseptic. Antibacterial.

Answer 7

it brings out the flaver in meat and it is helthy for you .it also will keep insects from bighting so much.
we used to rub our animals down with a garlic spread to keep the flys of of them it works great.

Answer 8

Garlic is one of my most favorite herbs. When you use it keeps your artries open .you can use it for healing purposes as well itcuts down your colestrol. Hope this helps.

Answer 9

Natural antibiotic

Answer 10

Mostly for taste, also a natural preservative. It has health bennefits too, prevents heart attack and stroke. Also causes gas and bad breath so its not all good.