Does drinking milk get rid of the smell of garlic breath?!
Answers: I heard somewhere that if you go overboard on the garlic for dinner, you can drink milk to lessen the smell of it on your breath. Anyone ever heard this?
What I heard from somebody if your food got some garlic you mix with parsley it will desappered or lessen the garlic smell on it.
Try some peppermint oil or chew on some ginger.
You may want to try brushing your teeth....I heard this works better than milk will any day....
Why don't you test and find out?
I wouldn't think it does.
I've never heard of milk being used as a breath freshener, it coats the inside of your mouth so would propbably make you smell worse. I have heard of it used to cool your mouth when you've eaten too much chilli though.
The classic way of neutralising garlic on your breath is to eat a bit of parsley. It works a treat.
hmmm heard of mouth wash? or after dinner mints?
no. try chewing gum mint flavor
Penny and Evelyn are right. Parsley is the best neutralizer of breath bourne odors.
A common misconception is that when you eat these foods that it stays on your breath via your mouth when it has been scientifically proven that odors from things like garlic and onions are expelled by way of your lungs. The enzymes in both of those offenders can be smelled by innocent bystanders because you're breathing it on them with every breath you take. You can brush your teeth all the live-long day and still detect garlic because every exhale carries the mild chemical reactive scent. Brushing your teeth will help a little for a few minutes but that's about it.
Parsley is an excellent garnish for foods heavily laden with garlic and onions...so don't throw that piece of parsley garnish away, eat it! The dried parsley flakes don't work as well as the fresh stuff, but in a pinch you can eat about six times the amount of the dried flakes as a substitute.
Parsley is also a wonderful systemic cleanser benefitting your entire body. Some people eat parsley salads for a couple of days before a drug test and they've always come up clean even if they've been smoking like a broken stove on the hookah! HAHA!!
Also, the nutrients in parsley are amazing. It's quite possibly one of the top five healthiest foods to eat.
Everybody could use a little more parsley in their diets :)
Another spice you can use to mask offending odors is the humble clove. They're a booger to chew up (do NOT swallow them!) and they're a little intense, but cloves will wipe out the smell of the most dreadful magnitude and they have a lasting effect (at least 20 minutes).
Even if you got rid of the garlic breath, the aroma would still be emanating from the pores of your skin. It is easy to identify someone who loves garlic by the scent of their skin, even after mouthwash. The best remedy is to hang out with other garlic eaters, and then you will not be offended by each other. On the contrary, it is something of an aphrodisiac.
Milk doesn't work, unless you bathe in it like Cleopatra.
I never heard that before. I would also have to say not true.I USED be a cereal head,abowl of cereal every night sometimes two.drank all the milk after cereal was gone,and nights I had garlic,my husband could smell it on my breath the next morn. Drove him crazy ,LOL.Thats why I say prob. not true.But than again everybodys different.Maybe people absortion rate to things like garlic are different.If anyone one does know of a sure fire cure for it,love to hear it.I love scampi but don't eat it.I work with the public and don't want to affend anyone.They also say cook the garlic before eating it and cuts down on it,also not true!