I’ve taken eating raw garlic to an art form. Here’s what we do. First, it’s the garlic oil on the mucus membranes in your mouth that gives you the immediate bad breath.
Make sure that you ALWAYS have food in your stomach before you start taking raw garlic, or you WILL throw it up. You don’t need to have much, but you need some.
My kids chop it up. Then they mash a slice of bread flat, tear out a little hunk, and put a tiny lump of garlic in the center. Make sure you do not get any garlic oil on your fingers when rolling the bread. Then they roll the bread all around the garlic. They keep doing this until the little pile of chopped garlic is in pill form. They then drink it right down with cold water, because it does not dissolve the oil so quick.
I can’t bother with all that drama. I simply chop up my garlic, put it on the edge of my spoon, scrape it off the spoon into my mouth, try not to think about what I’m doing, and I take it quickly with cold water. I’m not sure what time of day is best to take it so it won’t kill my hubby when I kiss him…Still working on that.
I have a friend who rolls her chopped garlic in white flour. She says the flour absorbs the oil, which helps cut down on bad breath. Then down with cold water.