It seems hard to connect with people on the issue of nutrition and health. Bad food habits, like SAD, the standard American diet, are hard to lose when “everybody” is doing it. Don’t get me started on a whole foods, plant-based diet. I am always happy to see someone having success with it, but it often seems a daunting task to get people interested, even if they are clearly sick from an obvious junk food diet.
And then some miracle stories come along again, like one lady I met recently, who was diagnosed with diabetes, kidney disease, and hypertension, and she was still fairly young. Somehow, she heard about the whole foods, plant-based (#WFPB) diet and within three weeks all her labs were in normal range again.
People like that become strong advocates. Other people do not connect with the results. A friend of mine, who apparently was a serious diabetic, reported that her diabetic wounds started to heal after she began adding black garlic to her diet, evidently because it is loaded with anti-oxidants.
Here are some pictures:
- Freshly made black garlic
- A corner of whole wheat spinach roti with a clove of black garlic, at Neerob Restaurant
- A plate with two spinach roti’s and several bulbs of black garlic
- A plate of four triscuits with a clove of black garlic and a slice of pickled jalapeño, my favorite breakfast, or an appetizer. The taste is out of this world. Some like it with Jalapeño, some without, but everybody likes it.
In short, black garlic tastes great, and it is a nutrient explosion. I know people who buy it online, ready made and simply eat a clove in the morning and a clove at night. I like the little Triscuit crackers, which are now my appetizer in the AM and in the PM. But I also loved the whole wheat roti at Neerob. They make them with pureed spinach, onions, garlic, peppers, cilantro, and chili and some lukewarm water. The garlic can be either raw or black, but black garlic tastes better. Whichever way you make them, they are incredible. You want the dough very liquid, so they stay flexible.
This one ingredient can turn people on to the connection between nutrition and health. There are also reports of people using it if they have a cold or the flu, which usually result from lacking nutrients.