How do you know if a food has them? Well, food industry doesn’t make it easy, they rarely put their content on labels so you will need to figure it out by reading ingredients. When buying packaged foods beware of word “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated” in list of ingredients. These foods will contain trans fatty acids. If you are leading a low carb lifestyle you probably won’t be buying these foods anyway so not to worry!

If you are trying to serve yourself a garlic herbal remedy by adding garlic to your foods then make sure you crush it a bit ahead of time and don't add until final 5 minutes of cooking. This will give allicin enough time to develop and will insure you don't cook all garlic health out of it. My favorite way to enjoy health benefits of this powerful herb is to make a garlic bread as described below.

1) Crush 3 or 4 cloves of garlic 2) Cut up some Italian bread 3) Pop cut up bread in oven or toaster 4) Spread butter on toasted bread along with a generous amount of crushed garlic 5) Enjoy!

Garlic can have an affect on blood clotting, so don't start eating more of it unless you discuss it with your physician first especially if you are on blood thinning medication or due to have surgery in near future.