It does evaporate through your skin somehow if consumed in large quantities. Having lived around slavs for a long time, I can tell you it's a thing.
According to the wife, I smell for at least a day through the skin. Now I noticed if I drink milk while I eat garlic, that helps to eliminate the taste from my tongue. Interestingly, if you use DMSO that causes a garlicky taste shortly after its use, that is how you know it entered your system.
It is an industrial byproduct that has surprisingly good health effects, mostly as painkiller and muscle recovery from exhaustion. It has the strange characteristic of the ability to go through your skin and into your blood stream. It can be used alone (mostly used for race horses), or as a delivery device for other medications that needs to get into your blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide So imagine that you put a chemical on your skin and in 20-30 seconds later you feel garlic in your mouth. -------------------------- I knew the Chinese makes most of the world's garlic (85%) but they also eat most, something like 30 lbs a year per capita. Although the Chinese garlic doesn't seem to be as strong as Western one.
I had friend that had a bottle of garlic from a now extinct variety that had a wonderful and strong flavor. I used a little black magic (joking) to create a few living plants of this extinct strain. The guy's wife didn't recognize my experiment as anything other than trash. She threw it out and something happened to the bottle. Now its extinct for real.
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