08 tons of Chinese garlic caught in Varanasi | 08 tons of Chinese garlic caught in Varanasi: Preparations were made to consume it in grocery and vegetable markets, food department did sampling – Varanasi News

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Chinese garlic

Visheshwarganj From taking the whole Purvanchal In yes doing supply

There were preparations to consume the Chinese garlic that had arrived in Pahadia Mandi in vegetable markets and grocery shops from Vishweshwarganj in Varanasi to other districts of Purvanchal. If sources are to be believed, more than 50 tonnes of Chinese garlic has been consumed in Varanasi and surrounding districts in the last one month.

Garlic recovered from this truck

Nepal Of ways yes doing smuggling

Chinese garlic is being supplied to entire Purvanchal including Varanasi through Nepal. Chinese garlic is costing cheaper to traders as compared to local garlic. In order to earn more profits, businessmen are buying and selling banned Chinese garlic illegally.

Truck parked in Pahadia Mandi

organs To Loss, This way do Identification

Seeing the ill effects of Chinese garlic on the body, in the year 2014, the Indian government banned its sale in the country. Consuming Chinese garlic causes swelling in the stomach and intestines. Chinese garlic is shiny and large in size. One clove of Chinese garlic is dangerous for health. One clove of Chinese garlic is equal to 4 cloves of local garlic. Chinese garlic cloves are blooming and thick. Synthetic process is used in Chinese garlic which makes it look white, clean and shiny. Chinese garlic has very little smell when cut, whereas the smell of native garlic can be smelled even from a great distance. There is difficulty in peeling local garlic, its peel sticks a lot to the hands. The peel of Chinese garlic does not stick to hands.