Garlic has a high health effect and has recently been attracting attention as a health food. Of all of you, there may be many who are thinking of incorporating garlic into their daily meals.
Therefore, it is the cooking method to be worried about. It should be eaten raw or heated. Depending on the ingredients, heating may cause loss of nutrients. This time, I will explain thoroughly focusing on the ingredients, whether raw garlic and heated garlic have a difference in the effect.
□ Ingredients of raw garlic
First, let’s introduce the typical ingredients of raw garlic and their functions. The three main components we will introduce will be compared to heated garlic.
・Alliin
Aliin is one of the main ingredients of garlic. Alliin itself has no effect, but it is turned into a component called Allicin by grinding and peeling. Allicin is highly effective in nourishing and preventing aging. In addition, allicin is a substance that causes the peculiar odor of garlic.
・potassium
Potassium is also the main ingredient of garlic after alliin. Potassium works to help drain the body’s water. It will help to prevent foot swelling and swelling and high blood pressure.
・vitamin
Garlic contains many vitamins. Vitamins help keep the skin and mucous membranes strong. It is said that garlic has a cosmetic effect because it is rich in vitamins. Vitamins also help the liver to metabolize lipids, which can be expected to enhance liver function.
□ Ingredients of heated garlic
Unfortunately, some of the garlic ingredients are weak or lost when heated. The main ingredients contained in the raw garlic, which I explained earlier, are compared.
・Aliin
When it changes from alliin to allicin, which can be expected to have a health effect, an enzyme called alinase works. By heating, this allinase is lost. As a result, allicin with health benefits is not produced, and the health benefits of garlic will be significantly reduced.
・potassium
Potassium is heat resistant, so heating will have little effect. However, be careful about the cooking method because potassium is easily soluble in water.
・Vitamins
Unfortunately, vitamins are vulnerable to heat. Therefore, vitamins contained in garlic are greatly reduced by heating.
□ Finally
In this way, the components of the heated garlic are greatly reduced and the effects are also reduced correspondingly to the raw garlic. However, since the smell is suppressed in heated garlic, it is easier to eat than raw garlic and the burden on the body is also reduced. Raw garlic allicin has a strong bactericidal effect, and if you eat too much it will be a heavy burden on the body.
There are also garlic that are considered to have a higher health effect than regular garlic. It is a black garlic made of aged normal garlic. If you want to absorb the effects of garlic more, we recommend black garlic.