Garlic Health Benefits: 5 Reasons To Include Garlic In Your Diet

The health benefits of garlic are aplenty. Each small clove is a powerhouse of flavour as well as medicinal properties. As per USDA, every 100 grams of garlic will serve you with close to 150 calories, 33 grams of carbs, 6.36 grams of protein. It is also enriched with vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, C, folate, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and zinc.

As per health experts, garlic helps purify blood, reducing inflammation, toxins and acne issues. You can take two cloves of raw garlic with some warm water early in the morning and consume a lot of water throughout the day.

Garlic is a storehouse of essential vitamins and antioxidants that help prevent several seasonal infections including cold and flu. You may take 2-3 cloves of raw or cooked garlic a day or sipping some garlic tea (with a touch of honey or ginger to lift up the taste).

Garlic is loaded with antioxidant properties of allicin, which as per several health experts, may help to lower cholesterol levels in the body. It is also known to be beneficial to regulate body's blood pressure and blood sugar levels.

The invigorating properties of garlic protect the skin from the effect of free radicals and slow down the depletion of collagen, which leads to loss of elasticity in aging skin.

Garlic is considered as one of the best kept medicinal treasures since ages - it has been used as an antibiotic to treat bacterial, fungal and parasitic infection. Several studies suggest that diluted garlic extract helps children with tapeworm infections.