Got Milk for that Garlic Breath?

A new study shows that drinking milk before or while eating garlic could help reduce the intensity of your breath after a fragrant meal. Reason why? According to research by the Department of Food Science and Technology at Ohio State University, published in the Journal of Food Science, ingesting beverages or foods with high water and/or fat content, such as milk, may help garlic ingestion and mask the garlic flavor during eating. The research shows that the addition of water, fat-free milk or whole milk to chopped garlic before ingestion was reported to reduce the strength of all ‘garlic breath’ compounds in the mouth, with both fat-free and whole milk significantly reducing concentrations of the garlic compound.—Denise Shoukas

Mints and Pastilles

Caught off guard without milk but a garlicky feast in front of you? Try these great mints and pastilles after you finish.

Hint Mint’s

Pomegranate Acai Sours
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 These are Hint Mint’s newest addition to its line of all-natural, vegan mints that come in sleek cigarette case carriers. They are a flavored sour mint that blends two of the hottest super antioxidant foods, pomegranate, and the Amazonian miracle berry, açai.

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That’s A Nice

After Garlic Mints
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The mints, which were featured on Food Network’s “Unwrapped”, are pure old-fashioned buttermints, individually wrapped in white and black wrappers. Each shiny black pouch includes approximately 30 mints.

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VerMints

All Natural, Organic Chai Pastilles
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Made with no animal products, these organic pastilles are a unique lozenge shape and are made with all-natural ingredients, such as organic crystallized cane juice and organic Vermont maple syrup.

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Denise Shoukas is a regular foodspring.com contributor and is the author of foodspring’s food forager blog.

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