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Garlic Oil

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Garlic Oil is a flavoring — Fruit and garlic flavoring for beverages, ice cream, candy

What it does

Fruit and garlic flavoring for beverages, ice cream, candy

Where you'll see it

Beverages, ice cream, candy, baked goods, chewing gum, condiments

Benefits

Has been used medicinally to treat intestinal worms.

Regulatory status

  • US FDA: GRAS
  • Notes: Reevaluated GRAS by FDA in 1976

Sources

  • A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): yellow liquid with a strong odor, obtained from the crushed bulbs