Garlic

Garlic is a strongly scented herb. These plants are mainly used as a flavoring. Garlic is widely known for its medicinal value. Garlic is used as a flavoring in cooking and pickling, sometimes in the form of whole or grated cloves and sometimes in the form of a cooked extract, as in sauces and dressings. In medicine, garlic is used as a digestive stimulant, diuretic, and antispasmodic. Garlic is grown in Europe, North and South America and Britain.

Garlic has small, six-part, whitish flowers. The bulb, which has a strong characteristic odor and taste, is covered with a papery skin and may be broken into constituent bulblets, called cloves.Common garlic has been cultivated since ancient times.