Talk:Garlic

"has been used throughout its history"?

The last sentence says that garlic "has been used throughout its history for both culinary and medicinal purposes"... modern humans have not even been around throughout its history, it's not possible for it to have been used for both culinary and medical purposes before the existence of modern humans. This statement is an error IMO. PrintedScholar (talk) 19:37, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

By definition -- or at least, by one definition -- "history" implies human existence. To make it clearer, just delete "its": "throughout history." Richard K. Carson (talk) 04:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Also, "Dating back over 6,000 years, garlic is native to central Asia ..." implies that garlic has only existed for about 6,000 years. Is this talking about a cultivated variety, as distinct from the wild varieties which must surely be much older? Whatever it means, I don't think it is currently very well worded. 86.181.206.168 (talk) 02:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

I hope that the revision I've just made fixes both of these valid criticisms. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:35, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Islamic view

please correct Islamic view about garlic and onion . No true relation between garlic and Adam in Islam . prophet Mohamed hate the halitosis caused by garlic and onion and other similar plants that cause this bad odor ,he states "no one eat this plant pray with us in our mosque but pray alone to avoid minding other prayer in the mosque " — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.96.141.134 (talk) 17:57, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Is this the statement that you find problematic? "In connection with the odor associated with garlic, Islam views eating garlic and subsequently going to the mosque as inappropriate because the smell from the mouth will irritate the fellow worshippers." The citation is incomplete, just "Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 65", which doesn't give enough information for checking, so I have moved it here for discussion. Nadiatalent (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Try looking, here: ~ 99.59.94.218 (talk) 22:33, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Sterility

The article states "A difficulty in the identification of its wild progenitor is the sterility of the cultivars" but also "sexual propagation of garlic is indeed possible". Which one is it? JöG (talk) 17:43, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Garlic capital?

The article correctly states that Gilroy, California calls itself "The Garlic Capital of the World". It even hosts a popular annual "Garlic Festival". It says that most of the US gets its garlic from Gilroy. But the graph for the production of garlic directly to the right of that statement shows NO garlic production from Gilroy--or anywhere in California--in 2005? What's going on? I mean, just driving through the town you can smell the heavy garlic aroma. Surely a place that supplies most of the US has a measurable output of the food. — Frεcklεfσσt | Talk 23:20, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

garlic hardiness

This article states that garlic is hardy in zone 8, which is not garlic's full hardiness range. In the United States, garlic is grown as far north as zone 3 (http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/dc7317.html) and as far south as zone 10 (http://gourmetgarlicgardens.com/growsouth.htm).

76.118.84.186 (talk) 16:23, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Hindu mythology corrction needed

<<<Knowing the Asuras' foul play the God cuffed the heads of those Asuras before they could swallow it and as a result nectar fell down on the earth from their mouths in drops which later grew as garlic; that is why the vegetable has such wonderful medicinal properties.>>> Cuffed refers to punching,I suspect that they want "cut off" in this story, but I'm not familiar with it enough to make a decision.