I absolutely love garlic. Whether it’s garlic fries, garlic toast, or garlic in my hamburger… I’ll gobble it up! While it tastes great and has many health benefits, there’s one serious drawback — it’s hard to prevent the dreaded garlic breath.
Some people, like myself, can carry this unwanted smell for days. Garlic literally reeks from every pore in my body.
One of the reasons that garlic breath is so strong is that garlic is full of sulphorous compounds. These compounds “feed” the bacteria in your mouth and bad breath (halitosis) is caused as a result.
Although there aren’t any ways to prevent garlic breath, except from barring yourself from eating garlic, there are ways to minimize the smell.
- Good oral hygiene
- Fresh chopped parsley with your meal helps reduce garlic breath.
- Some people also claim that chewing cardamon seeds has a similar effect to parsley and can work as a garlic breath remedy.
- Garlic smell on your hands? Simply rub your hands with a stainless steel spoon or other stainless steel utensil.
- Don’t have stainless steel utensils on hand? A little salt or baking soda rubbed on the hands should do the trick.
The best solution is probably just to surround yourself with other garlic lovers, because no solution can stop the garlic that works it’s way through your skin and emerges from your pores!
I didn’t know parsley helped with garlic breath. I gotta give that a try. :)
I love garlic fries too, but you’re right about the lingering smell for days!
eww
parsley is friggin gross
the smell doesn’t linger too long for me, unless i just don’t notice it because I just get used to it…
You usually can’t smell your own garlic breath (or bad breath) because your olfactory (sense of smell) nerves adapts and becomes accustomed to your own smell.
When this happens only those arounds us can let us know the problem exists.
I know plenty of times I thought the smell was gone, but what do you know… two days later I have someone telling me I reek of garlic. :p
Lucky I’m not a huge fan of garlic!!
“Garlic smell on your hands? Simply rub your hands with a stainless steel spoon or other stainless steel utensil. ”
Rub those stainless steel untensil’s in your mouth ;) If tomatoe sauce can cure a skunk smell, why can’t it cure a garlic smell? :D
The picture makes me hungry! Not a great fan of garlic, I only use them sparingly when I cook.
Rubbing stainless steal?? That sounds kool, I should just rub my spoon inside my mouth hehe, but I can honestly live without garlic!
i’ve heard that if you rinse your mouth with salt water (table salt and water) twice a day your breath will not have any smells… and this does work well against garlic… at least says my dentist.
wow… i never have garlic fries before… so tomorrow i must try it
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Garlic is good for the body’s immune system. However, it brings bad mouth smell, even hand smell, so if you don’t like garlic, avoid eating foods with it on.
the pic make me hungry
I love garlic.Only 1 problem I’m always hiding when I’m eating it,my husband isn’t the greatest fan of it and when i eat it i stay away from him because he hates the smell.Sometimes if i don’t have it i feel like im gonna go crazy,wat can i say i love garlic.MMMMM just talking bout it makes me wanna eat some now,oh wait my husband is here.This sucks!