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Old November 12, 2017   #27
seaeagle
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Default Chinese or USA Garlic?

Thanks to this thread I decided to grow some garlic this year. So while I was at Wally World I bought some garlic to plant. There was only one choice as the loose garlic shelf was wiped out. So I bought the 1.25 pound bag from Spice World. Looked really nice. 3.89 I think.

I start reading about how to plant it and then I find out most of our garlic is now imported from China. It says the garlic from China is inferior to the garlic grown here, so buying from Walmart I assumed it was from China. Looked on the bag and it said Product of USA. I am still not convinced, so I search and find this.

It is really easy to tell. The garlic from China has no roots at all, basically bare on the bottom. So I went back and looked again and to my relief this garlic still had the roots.

Here is the article, also proves that stuff from China is labeled USA in the supermarkets.

https://californiamediterraneandiet....hinese-garlic/

Edit to say that this may have already posted somewhere. I do not read all the forums regularly.

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