Do you eat raw garlic for health?

No, but I'll eat way too much at a boil.

Love it. I think I get a buzz off the stuff. Brain food. I eat it with avocado

Yes. Go fresh over supplements. Crush and use on any topical infection. I swear by mr garlic.

You probably don't have to eat it raw to get the health effects. You just need to crush/mince your garlic about 10-15 minutes before cooking it. This is because the compound that confers the health benefits, allicin, is formed when the cells in garlic are broken. Apparently it's heat resistant when it's already formed, but it doesn't form under heat. So you have to wait a while.

I had read that cooking it virtually depletes the allicin. That could be wrong.

Another way is to put crushed inside a small piece of tissue, it seems to help with the bad breath. I just eat it first thing in the morning and brush my teeth/ rinse with mouthwash.

Best way to eat raw garlic is press down on it real hard with the wide side of your knife when removing the peel. The crushing of the garlic allows some chemical to react to the air, making the garlic more 'potent', or more likely more bio-available. It also reduces the 'burning' and strong garlic taste by doing this.

So once you crushed it and removed the skin, just chop it up real fine, and let it sit from a min up to 90 mins to reap the benefits. Then after that, its best to take a spoon and shovel it in your mouth, then follow that up with some water and swallow. No taste, minimal burn and better benefits.

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If you can get some fresh ginger, I would also do this with it as well. Turmeric and black pepper works amazing.