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Amazing science experiment performed by American researchers as part of the Fancy Food Stunts project, demonstrated one unusual quality of well-known garlic. It turns out, in order to feel the taste of the bulb of this perennial herb, do not necessarily put it in your mouth. It’s hard to believe, but for this purpose you can use the feet, which absorb garlic into your body.
Employees of the American Chemical Society report that discovered this remarkable property of garlic quite by accident. To conduct such an experiment at home, fortunately, is extremely simple. To do this, take a clove of fresh garlic, cut it into two parts and rub them abundantly on the bottom surface of one of the feet legs. After this, the foot should be carefully wrapped with polyethylene package, thus preventing the spread of the room smell so that you do not seem to feel how you feel the taste is due to the garlic aroma.
If you sit with such a blindfold for about an hour, then you’ll start taste garlic in your mouth. Why it happens? All the thing is allicin – a chemical compound that is formed in the result of mechanical destruction of the fetal cells of this plant. It is allicin that gives garlic its burning taste and peculiar the aroma. The Americans found that this compound is capable of penetrate human skin and travel through the body, getting from anywhere in the body, even the farthest (from the foot), to the oral cavity.
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