Raw garlic black garlic price increased 10 times experts say the nutritional value of black garlic is overblown

recently, a kind of black garlic food by the public, this by the ordinary garlic fermented after the price of ready-to-eat snacks is frighteningly high, a pound moving dozens of yuan or even hundreds of yuan. Its efficacy is said by merchants, said it has to eliminate fatigue, improve physical strength, solve constipation, protect the liver, improve prostate activity, lower three high, control blood sugar, promote sleep, anti-cancer and many other effects. Is black garlic really that amazing?black garlic 80 yuan a pound nutritional value is ten times raw garlic?"I saw in the shop there is a kind of black garlic
80
yuan a pound, in the end black garlic is what, the effect is so big?" "Recently, Ms. Zhang, a citizen, found that some food stores in Jinan are selling a kind of black garlic food, its price is very high, and the efficacy of the business boasted very big., reporters found that this black garlic is being sought after by the public. This garlic is different from ordinary garlic, its garlic cloves are black, sweet and soft to eat, and no garlic spicy taste.a food store on Yuyuan Street, the price of this black garlic is very high. For example, the price of a kilo of black garlic is
80,
yuan a can, while the other
200
grams of black garlic is
58,
yuan a bag, the price is eye-watering. Reporters from the Internet to see, this black garlic mainly produced in Shandong, Liaoning and so on. The price of online sales is very different, the most expensive one or two hundred yuan a jin, cheap there are dozens of dollars a jin, but compared to a few yuan a pound of ordinary garlic, the price of black garlic is
10
times more expensive., according to an online shop staff: "This garlic is fresh raw garlic with skin fermentation made." Because of its natural fermentation, no chemical additives, so retain the original composition of garlic, and eat no garlic odor, but the nutritional value is very high, its nutritional value is more than ten times that of ordinary raw garlic.Black garlic is made of ordinary garlic, the effect is not so magical reporters in a brand of black garlic packaging to see, merchants claim that the public long-term consumption, can achieve antioxidant, improve immunity, anti-cancer and other effects.Yu, of the School of Food Science and Engineering at the Qilu University of Technology, is currently studying the processing process and nutritional value of black garlic. Professor Yu said the production of black garlic is not complicated, that is, fresh garlic in high temperature and humidity heating for more than a month, or even up to two or three months. This production process is professionally "enzyme-called browning" and is referred to in many places as "fermentation" when introducing black garlic.black garlic is popular because of its "functional health food" positioning. Professor Yu says garlic contains many antioxidants, such as glutamate and various polyphenol compounds. The antioxidant properties of these substances are widely disseminated. Experiments have found that when fresh garlic becomes black garlic, the content or activity of these substances increases, but there is no authoritative data on specific multiply., a member of the nutrition department of Qianfushan Hospital in Allah, told reporters that garlic sterilization is due to the abundance of allicin. Allicin has a strong bactericidal effect, but allicin in the heat will quickly lose its function, so eating raw garlic than cooked garlic sterilization effect is better., however, Professor Yu stressed that raw garlic processed into black garlic, its allicin into ahoene, in medicine ahoene also has an anti-cancer effect. Raw garlic contains nutrients need to be oxidized before it can be absorbed by the body, so from this point of view, some of the nutrients of black garlic will be more conducive to human absorption.people with diabetes can eat black garlicraw garlic into black garlic, become soft and sweet, so some experts say diabetics should be careful to eat, but Professor Yu put forward a different view. Professor Yu says black garlic contains different sugars than regular foods. Black garlic contains a lot of sugars, but also rich in dietary fiber. This polysaccharoid has the effect of lowering blood sugar, so people with diabetes can eat it properly.Du Hui Allah reminded the public that black garlic is only a food, and can not cure a hundred diseases. The public should not be blind to the health effects of a food, but should arrange meals reasonably so as to achieve the goal of balanced nutrition.2014,
a
paper published in the Journal of Functional Foods by Taiwanese scholars reported on a fairly sophisticated animal experiment, according to media reports. They fed the rats a normal diet, a high-fat diet, a high-fat diet and different doses of black garlic extract, and then detected changes in weight and multiple physiological indicators. It was found that compared with the high-fat food group, rats who ate high-fat foods and supplemented with black garlic extract had significantly lower blood weight, relative weight of liver and adipose tissue, triglycerides in serum, and oxidative stress levels in the liver, and many indicators were close to those on a normal diet. However, after all, it is only an animal experiment, in the human body, the situation, still need to be further studied. As for the "anti-cancer" effect of black garlic, there are only some very preliminary laboratory studies, which have not really been confirmed.