Black Garlic: EVALUATION OF BLACK GARLIC AS POTENTIAL MEDICINAL PRODUCT THROUGH ANALYSIS OF ITS NUTRITIVE CONTENT, CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITIES

Description: Black Garlic (BG) is known for its health and culinary benefits. It is important to study indigenous BG and evaluate its medicinal properties. Results will also serve as information for its further evaluation as a wonder medicine against cancer, hypertension, and diabetes, among others.

Black Garlic (BG) is known for its health and culinary benefits. (BG) can demand a high selling price. Since garlic is one of the flagship commodity crops of Ilocos Norte, it is important to study indigenous BG and evaluate its medicinal properties to increase its value and help local garlic farmers increase their sales and profit. Results will also serve as information for its further evaluation as a wonder medicine against cancer, hypertension, and diabetes, among others. To determine the potential of black garlic, its nutrient, chemical, and anti-cancer properties were evaluated based on existing protocols. Mineral contents such as sodium calcium, iron, potassium, and zinc increased from MMSU raw to black garlic, but most components were higher with the Japan black garlic.However, chemical properties such as S-allyl cysteine, Ƴ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and pyroglutamic acid were found to be higher in MMSU black garlic. The result indicates that raw and black garlic also have antioxidant activities. Results also showed that black garlic is cytotoxic to sample colon and lung cancer cells

Organisation: Bauertek Farmaceutical Technologies Corporation

Innovator(s): Richard Nixon C. Gomez, Rigel R. Gomez, Shirley C. Agrupis, Milen Fileza M. Inocencio, and Aira Cassandra S. Castro

Category: Pharma

Country: Philippines