Black garlic with sweet smell
英黑色大蒜助口气清新

Black garlic - a sweet variety of the popular cooking ingredient that doesn't leave you with bad breath - is getting ready to hit the UK supermarket shelves, the Daily Mail of London reported Wednesday. Black garlic tastes much sweeter than traditional garlic and enjoys twice the amount of anti-oxidants of the pale variety and can last twice as long on the shelf. And like all garlic it is good for your cardiovascular system, high in natural sugars and amino-acids and is low in fat. Black garlic is made from white garlic which is then fermented. The natural sugars and amino-acids then combine to give a black coloring on the cloves known as melanoidin.

据英国《每日邮报》23日报道，一种新型"黑色大蒜"将在英国超市上架销售，食用此种黑蒜后不会产生难闻"大蒜味"口气。与普通大蒜相比，黑蒜更甜，含有的抗氧化剂高出1倍，保质期也长出1倍。同时，它与普通大蒜一样，富含自然糖分和氨基酸，脂肪含量低，有益心血管系统健康。黑蒜由普通大蒜发酵而成，其中的自然糖分和氨基酸合成一种名为"类黑精"的物质，使大蒜颜色变成黑色。

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