May 1, 2024 05:34 PM
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https://gizmodo.com/black-garlic-odor-fr...1851446631
INTRO: Would you be willing to eat pitch-black garlic cloves in exchange for no stinky breath? Researchers in Australia are studying and hoping to popularize a unique, specially aged variant of the cooking herb. The blackened variant apparently has a sweet flavor, while still having the potential health benefits associated with raw garlic.
The exact origins of black garlic are unclear, but it’s purportedly been eaten regularly in parts of South Korea, Japan, and Thailand for centuries. In more recent years, the variant has started to garner attention as a high-end culinary curiosity. And now scientists at The University of Queensland in Australia are looking to help black garlic become mainstream in a way that white garlic never could... (MORE - details)
PAPER: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333422/
INTRO: Would you be willing to eat pitch-black garlic cloves in exchange for no stinky breath? Researchers in Australia are studying and hoping to popularize a unique, specially aged variant of the cooking herb. The blackened variant apparently has a sweet flavor, while still having the potential health benefits associated with raw garlic.
The exact origins of black garlic are unclear, but it’s purportedly been eaten regularly in parts of South Korea, Japan, and Thailand for centuries. In more recent years, the variant has started to garner attention as a high-end culinary curiosity. And now scientists at The University of Queensland in Australia are looking to help black garlic become mainstream in a way that white garlic never could... (MORE - details)
PAPER: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333422/