World of the Bizarre

It is possible to taste garlic with your feet

By T.K. Randall
December 10, 2016 ·  16 comments

You can try this trick at home. Image Credit: CC BY 3.0 JJ Harrison In a new video by the American Chemical Society as part of its ongoing 'Weird Food Tricks' series, researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to taste garlic by absorbing it through your feet.

To try this out, cut a piece of fresh garlic in half, rub it all over the bottoms of your feet and then tie plastic carrier bags around them to keep the garlic smell from filling the room.After about an hour you will start to actually taste the garlic in your mouth.

The reason for this is not because you are smelling it in the air but because one of the molecules in garlic - Allicin - is able to penetrate through your skin and travel through your body to your mouth.

The video, which explains this peculiar effect in more detail, can be viewed below.


Source: Popular Science | Comments (16)

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