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Article: Garlic Powder More Effective than Oil Against Bacteria.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- January 29, 2001
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2001 JAN 29 - (NewsRx.com) -- Garlic might be good for your health, but it appears that garlic powder works better than garlic oil in fighting bacteria, according to researchers from the United Kingdom.
The antimicrobial effects of garlic have long been known, but little research has been done to date on garlic oil. The purpose of this study was to compare the abilities of garlic oil and garlic powder on a variety of bacteria known to cause gastrointestinal illness.
Z.M. Ross and colleagues reported their findings in the January 2001 issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology ("Antimicrobial properties of garlic oil ...