Garlic Facts

  • You can use garlic to make glue.
  • Garlic cultivation is estimated to be over 4,000 years old.
  • The Egyptians were the first western civilization credited with including garlic in their diet.
  • Garlic is both a vegetable and an herb.
  • Garlic is used in both medicinal practices and herbal practices.
  • Garlic attracts leeches.
  • Garlic is rumored to fend off vampires.
  • China is the largest producer of garlic in the world.
  • California is the largest producer of garlic in the United States.
  • April 19th is National Garlic Day!
  • Garlic contains 17 amino acids.
  • The Garlic Girls is the name of the South Korean curling team who won the silver medal in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  • "Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers" is a documentary made in 1980 about the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, CA.
  • "The Garlic Blues" was sung by Helen Humes in November of 1927: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVnArf2uqzo
  • The current world record holder for most garlic cloves eaten is Bharat Bista in Kathmandu, Nepal, who ate 42 cloves of garlic in one minute.

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