0 a plant of the onion family that has a strong taste and smell and is used in cooking to add flavour:
1 a plant of the onion family that has a strong taste and smell and is used in cooking to add flavor
The medicinal values of garlic are well-documented.
However, there are some things that are difficult to explain if we wish to argue that garlic caused this outbreak.
It seems reasonable to assume that one of the ingredients in the mixture was garlic.
Twenty-two of the 32 cases had eaten semi-dried tomatoes and/or fresh garlic.