Garlic Powder Granulated

When eaten raw, garlic has a powerful, pungent flavor. For that reason, it's customary to cook it in some way before serving it, which mellows the flavor considerably. Roasting garlic changes the flavor and texture significantly, resulting in creamy cloves with a nutty, mild taste.

Garlic, which is inexpensive, is generally used as a flavoring ingredient in recipes rather than as the main ingredient itself.

The difference between garlic powder and granulated garlic is merely texture, garlic powder having a flour-like consistency and granulated garlic being coarser. We provide Garlic in large slices, small minced pieces and as a powder. What you are cooking determines which form should be used.

• Pieces of large Garlic Flakes are delicious in curries and casseroles.   
• Minced garlic and garlic powder are ideal in dishes that will not be cooked for long including garlic and herb breads. 
• Use sparingly as dried garlic is surprisingly potent when compared to fresh. 

If using Garlic powder as a substitute for garlic in a recipe a quick conversion is to substitute 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder for each clove of garlic required by the recipe.

Garlic is the edible bulb from a plant in the lily family. It was traditionally used for health purposes by people in many parts of the world, including the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and Japanese.

Garlic grows underground in the form of a bulb. (Its long green shoots produce flower stalks called scapes, which can be eaten.) Covered in an inedible papery skin, the bulb, or head as it is more often referred to, is comprised of individual sections called cloves, and there can be anywhere from 10 to 20 cloves per head. These cloves are themselves enclosed in a paperlike skin, which needs to be removed, and the pale yellowish flesh within is the part of the garlic that is used in cooking and can be cut in a variety of ways.

Health Benefits

The history of garlic goes back to before Egyptian times and it is a herb which has always been valued for both its culinary qualities and medicinal attributes.  The part of garlic which we refer to as a clove is actually one of many bulblets, each with a papery casing and compacted into a larger corm or bulb. 

Garlic is considered one of Mother Nature’s most potent antibiotic and antifungal plants. Chemical properties in garlic have been shown to promote the elimination of toxins from the blood, and lymphatic system.

Garlic is considered immune boosting and may be effective in killing certain bacteria such as jock itch and yeast infections.

Garlic is also thought to help with conditions of the heart, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, heart attack, and “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis).