Sihaiwang: garlic is an essential ingredient in life. Every family has prepared a lot of garlic. Although garlic can be put, it will go bad for a long time. Can I eat garlic if it's a bit rotten? But in general, it's better not to eat garlic when it's broken. When garlic breaks down, it is easy to produce bacteria and microorganisms, and it is also easy to produce harmful substances, so it is not suitable for further consumption. Let's take a look at it in detail!
Garlic is a bit rotten. Can you eat it
We can't eat it. Freshness and hygiene are the most important standards for us to choose food. Rotten garlic contains a lot of pathogenic bacteria, which is easy to cause enteritis, dysentery and other diseases.
Garlic, also known as the gourd, is the root of Liliaceae plants. It is warm and spicy in nature. The allicin contained in garlic has a strong bactericidal effect, and has obvious therapeutic and preventive value for bacterial, fungal and protozoan infections. Li Shizhen wrote compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty, saying that garlic has strong Qi, which can pass the five zang organs, reach all orifices, remove cold and dampness, ward off evil, relieve pain and swelling, and turn diseases into meat. Ancient Greek athletes used garlic as a health food. Ancient Romans used garlic to treat cold, asthma, anesthesia, convulsion and other diseases with excellent effect. In the 5th century AD, Indians found that eating garlic enhanced their intelligence and made their voices loud. According to the research of traditional Chinese medicine, garlic with 3-5 petals of mashed boiled water or single garlic cooked with charcoal fire can cure dysentery and acute enteritis by taking 3 g each time; garlic with several petals of vinegar can cure cold pain in the heart and abdomen by taking 3 days. Taking garlic juice and cream orally can cure hyperlipidemia. It is a good way to prevent epidemic encephalitis B by eating garlic raw and gargling with warm salt water.
Nutritional value of garlic
Modern medical research has proved that garlic contains more than 100 kinds of medicinal and health care ingredients, including 43 kinds of sulfur-containing volatiles, 13 kinds of sulfides (such as allicin), 9 kinds of amino acids, 8 kinds of peptides, 12 kinds of glycosides and 11 kinds of enzymes. In addition, allicin is a unique component of garlic. When it enters the blood, it becomes allicin, which can kill typhoid bacillus, dysentery bacillus and influenza virus in an instant even if diluted 100000 times. Allicin combined with vitamin B1 can produce alliin, which can eliminate fatigue and enhance physical strength. Garlic contains creatinine, which is an indispensable component of muscle activity, and also plays an important role in the production of semen, which can greatly increase the number of sperm. Garlic can also promote metabolism, reduce the content of cholesterol and triglyceride, and has the effect of lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, so it has a certain effect on hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, diabetes and so on. Garlic can promote the blood circulation of skin, remove the aged cuticle of skin, soften the skin and enhance its elasticity. It can also prevent sun exposure, melanin deposition, discoloration and whitening. In recent years, studies at home and abroad have proved that the synthesis of garlic interruptible nitrosamines carcinogens in vivo, so far, its anti-cancer effect in more than 40 kinds of vegetables and fruits, arranged in pyramid, garlic is located on the top of the tower. In more than 100 components, dozens of them have independent anti-cancer effect.
Who can't eat garlic? It's better for patients with eye diseases to eat less garlic
The ancients said: 'garlic can cure all diseases but one eye'. Eating garlic in large quantities for a long time is harmful to the eyes. Ji Kang said in "health preserving theory" that "meat and spices are harmful to the eyes", garlic is the most pungent, and it is clear to the body, through the eyes, easy to cause eye damage. So take care not to eat too much garlic, especially for people with eye disease, in the treatment must avoid spicy food.
It's better for those who are weak and hot to eat less garlic
The ancients believed that eating more garlic would consume the Qi of dispersing people, and also the blood of dispersing people. According to the records in the new book of Materia Medica, garlic is poisonous, hot and spitting, dispersing the Qi and consuming the blood. People who are weak and hot should not touch their lips. So people with poor health and weak Qi and blood should pay attention.
Patients with liver disease should eat less garlic
Many people eat garlic to prevent hepatitis, and even some people still eat garlic every day after suffering from hepatitis. It's all wrong. According to compendium of Materia Medica, garlic has the characteristics of "long time eating, liver damage and eye damage". Garlic is hot and can help fire; it has a pungent taste and strong irritancy. If the liver has internal fire, if eaten, the liver fire will be more prosperous, and it will cause damage after a long time.
Take garlic seriously
Garlic is the hair, so-called hair, refers to the food which is easy to induce some diseases or aggravate the diseases. Eating spicy food, such as garlic and pepper, is likely to have obvious side effects for people who have serious diseases or are taking medicine. It may not only cause old diseases, but also cause drug failure, or have a chain reaction with drugs, affecting health.
Purple Garlic is more antibacterial than white garlic. Garlic can be divided into white garlic, Purple Garlic and black garlic according to the color of the skin, among which white garlic and purple garlic are common. Compared with white garlic, purple garlic has more pungent taste, higher content of allicin and more obvious antibacterial effect. Single garlic is more anticancer, its pungent taste is unique, it has a certain medicinal value, and its anticancer effect is higher than that of common cloved garlic.
No garlic for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency
Raw garlic is highly irritant, and it can promote digestion if you eat less. However, if you eat garlic again when you have non bacterial enteritis or diarrhea, strong stimulation will aggravate the congestion and edema of intestinal mucosa, promote exudation, and worsen the condition.
Garlic is good, but you can't eat it
It can be seen from the above that although garlic has many beneficial effects on human health, for patients with liver disease, physical deficiency heat, diarrhea, serious disease and eye disease, it will not help the body recover quickly after eating garlic, but also lead to certain deterioration and aggravation of their condition. Therefore, these five kinds of people should not eat garlic.