Comments on: How Green Is Your Garlic?

By: Lupe

Lupe — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 01:16:02 +0000

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By: Oscar Holgado

Oscar Holgado — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:46:35 +0000

I made a mistake years ago to try those big garlic, packaged neatly in long fishnet plastic tube. I used it for cooking but was disappointed when I didn’t smell that garlicky flavor – surprised upon reading the label that it was produced in China. From then on I avoided buying that type of garlic – I buy the loose bulk garlic or that produced in the USA. If you have dirt around you you can easily grow garlic.

By: Miriam Kresh

Miriam Kresh — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:07:31 +0000

Mary,you didn’t indicate where you live, but I’d say that most farmer’s markets have fresh local garlic in the springtime. You can certainly plant garlic cloves, the little flat side down, and get a home-grown crop, but you need plenty of space. I assume you can get “seed” garlic through a seed catalogue if you can’t find local garlic.

Green tops are a good sign – that means the garlic is viable and sprouting. Signs of local garlic as opposed to imported bleached stuff: colorful peels and some dirt at the root end.

By: Mary Thompson

Mary Thompson — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:35:14 +0000

I’m so glad I read this article. I saw the news one day showing China madly producing garlic en mass to import overseas…..I KNEW when I saw that something was WRONG with the garlic.
I knew it had something to do with eliminating the powerful antiviral properties – of which there are 7 – in garlic. I KNEW that the gleeful way they were in a RUSH to get it out on the market that it was going to heal current plagues.
So, now that I confirmed my suspicions about the Chinese/garlic connection…..Question is: PLEASE ANSWER ME AT MY EMAIL ADDRESS.
Where can I get local garlic? Who sells it and is it possible to buy garlic seeds that are ok? Can I take a garlic clove and plant it and what signs reveal that it is a healthy non chinese garlic?
Green tops? Is that a good sign?

By: Daisy Girl 96

Daisy Girl 96 — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:10:09 +0000

Thanks for this article – can you please do a similar article about apple juice? I’ve stopped buying it – because every brand – even major ones – now say made from apple juice concentrate from China! I’ll never have apple juice again, I guess – but wonder what they put on to their apples!

By: Patrick Martin

Patrick Martin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:44:09 +0000

Thank you, Miriam, this is indeed informative. A few months ago, I noticed suddenly that all the garlic in my local Beer Sheva grocery stores was from China. Plastics and cheap electronics somehow make sense, but fresh vegies?!? WTF! In search of locally grown garlic, my first trip was to the the veggie suk, where, to my dismay, even there the packaged garlic (this variety with Israeli logos from some Israeli vegetable growing company) was from China. I will make more of an effort now to locate locally grown.

By: Tinamarie Bernard Eshel

Tinamarie Bernard Eshel — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:51:05 +0000

This is such good, basic information! I see those chinese garlic bulbs in the stores, and wondered about this very thing. Thank you. I'm now officially only buying locally grown garlic, and will make sure to pass this on.

By: foodbridge

foodbridge — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:57:04 +0000

thanks Miriam, for this informative post, I did not realize the white bulbs were imported from China and the implications linked to this. Besides, fresh garlic is immeasurably better, so from now on I will buy local, at least when it comes to garlic.

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:39:30 +0000

I love fresh garlic grown locally. It’s juicy, not dry, way tastier and has a rich red tint. I do find it moulds if not aerated properly, and the garlic teeth – is that what you call them – smaller than the Chinese variety. I always choose local when I can find it, irrespective of the the price.

By: Gili

Gili — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:02:54 +0000

And after all that, they dare to market the too-white-Chinese-garlic under the name “Pri Artzenu” (פרי ארצנו). Hurry up to the market and get a year supply. It’s better and much cheaper.