What is wild garlic? Let's take a closer look at one of our ingredients.
What is wild garlic?
Wild garlic ( Allium ursinum) is a plant in the Amaryllidaceae family. It grows naturally or is cultivated in Europe and Asia in damp, woodland-type environments.
Wild garlic has been traditionally consumed since ancient Greece as part of the diet, but is also used in aromatherapy and pharmacy for its medicinal properties.
Wild garlic leaf contains multiple active chemical components, including vitamin C, selenium, sulfur amino acids, essential oil containing sulfides, and alkyl polysulfides.
What are the biological properties of wild garlic?
Following the crushing of the plant, one of its compounds (alliin) will react with alliinase, a compound naturally present in the leaf, to produce several sulfur compounds (diallyl sulfide, diallyl disulfide and arjoene) which will be the main responsible for the pharmaceutical virtues of the leaf.
Diallyl disulfide naturally increases the proportion of reduced glutathione in blood cells, while diallyl sulfide increases the activity of antioxidant enzymes and activates the Nrf2 protein, the main one responsible for the body's natural response to oxidative stress.
Wild garlic leaf has a dual antioxidant effect, chelating heavy metals and free radicals.
And what about Phytocea?
At Phytocea, we have created an innovative nutraceutical containing wild garlic: DTOX . DTOX is a special detox nutraceutical food supplement. It is designed to protect the body against damage caused by contact with toxins found in the environment and, more specifically, in food.
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What does research say about wild garlic?
Wild garlic helps the body eliminate heavy metals, including lead, cadmium, mercury, and aluminum. An American study demonstrated an antioxidant effect of wild garlic comparable to the synthetic molecule BHT found in pharmaceutical antioxidant formulas.(1)
An in vitro study using an artificial liver model demonstrated a 44-52% reduction in cholesterol synthesis at a wild garlic concentration of 166 µg/ml. (2)