Can you pop garlic pieces like pills?

For health purposes, I expect it doesn’t matter how it gets to your stomach. I wouldn’t swallow whole garlic cloves myself, for fear of them getting stuck along the way, but I suppose small ones aren’t any bigger than large vitamin pills.

For breath, it probably matters how much is left in your mouth, teeth, and throat / esophagus. So swallowing minced garlic without chewing should help. Eating some food after would probably also help.

Same effect. Same bad breath. Try following the garlic with a head of broccoli. (Let me know if it helps).

If you’re taking garlic for health benefits, you can’t take it on an empty stomach without throwing it right back up. I don’t know if honey would help, but you’ve been warned. For maximum benefit, chop a garlic clove up fine, let it sit for ten minutes or so, then take it. Something seems to happen as it interacts with the air to maximize the benefit to the body.

To reduce bad breath, you can push the chopped garlic into empty gelatin or vegetable capsules, and swallow with water. If you take very much of it very often, people will be able to smell you from across the room.

I think it helps to drink it down with ice water because the garlic oil isn’t released as quickly into the mouth (which increases bad breath).

Like pills? I find that to be a strange expression. Is that a popular American expression now? I wonder what that is indicative of? Maybe that/s why you people are so fucked up.

Here’s one for ya. I learned it in Sweden and it works.

When the newspapers announce flu season, take one whole garlic onion and dice it finely. Put the mess in an eight ounce glass of orange juice. Chug it down. It helps if you have something already in your stomach.

If you don’t puke it back up, you will not get the flu that year. No shit. But you will smell like garlic for a about a week. Nothing you can do about that. But when everybody else is flat on their back, you’ll be up and feeling rosy..

@snowberry I did it this morning, I didn’t throw it back up. I only eat a small part, not the whole thing. I will try it with the water.

@Espiritus_Corvus I’m not American.

^^Thank your lucky stars.

I heard that a shot of apple cider vinegar every day is good for you. Maybe that would be better and easier for you than the garlic.

Parsley is supposed to help the bad breath. Maybe you van eat that after or even put some in a juicer

You could, but I don’t recommend it. Not sure how beneficial raw garlic is for health but I’ve heard cooked garlic is good for you. You can always cook it.

Physically breaking down the garlic into smaller pieces allows your body to digest it easily. If you swallow a whole piece of garlic, you may find that it passes through you without being changed much. The more you break down the garlic before putting it into your body,. the more your body can extract from it.

No matter what you do, eating garlic will result in garlic oil evaporating out of your lungs and sweat glands, giving you garlic breath and garlic BO.

You will probably end up with indigestion and nothing more. As for health benefits, I have seen no effect on hypertension!!!!

@dappled_leaves So far I have been chewing it. The pill like swallowing is to avoid breath. I appreciate all the answers and thank you guys for them, but they’re all so different, as are the sites I’m visiting for this. I believe I will rethink this and ask my doctor. Thanks. :)

You can buy garlic capsules…why not try that?

When I eat onions or garlic, the smell comes out of my pores. I reek!