Garlic Facts | Facts about Garlics

What plants are in the onion family?

The onion family includes garlic, leeks, and chives.

Ancient Egyptian pyramid workers were fed garlic.

Gilroy, California, calls itself the Garlic Capital of the World.

Crushing garlic creates allicin, which gives garlic its strong smell.

China grows about three-quarters of the world's garlic.

Garlic breath lasts because garlic compounds are released through your lungs and skin.

In folklore, garlic is said to ward off vampires.

Black garlic is garlic aged until it turns black and sweet.

Garlic is toxic to dogs and cats.

Elephant garlic is more closely related to leeks than to regular garlic.

Garlic was used as an antiseptic during World War I and World War II and was nicknamed "Russian penicillin."