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A new taste in Turkey,<br />
black garlic by Eravital<br />
Having enriched with antibiotics and anti-oxidant and<br />
smoothed taste and aroma the new product made by<br />
complete natural methods, the product is to be sold under<br />
Eravital brand in Turkey.<br />
We talked with Ozgur Yilmazel of Eravital<br />
Company about the new product<br />
black garlic. Yilmazel emphasized on the<br />
fact that it is made by fermentation of<br />
fresh garlic and can be consumed with<br />
sugary, sweets and chocolate.<br />
First, will you mention about<br />
the foundation of your firm?<br />
We first met it in Spain by chance. Then<br />
we started to think about, and then we<br />
said, why nobody has done this yet, and<br />
80 FOOD TURKEY <strong>March</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
started to make research to produce<br />
prototype machinery by using KOS-<br />
GEB entrepreneurship incentive. The<br />
early results showed that tastes are totally<br />
identical. It was a hard process as<br />
no one knew about the product, and<br />
its dark color was also another issue.<br />
We ended up finding out that the<br />
product is known as super food in<br />
USA, and a popular one in England,<br />
Spain, Greece and in Far East. We’re<br />
now trying to promote it in our country.<br />
It is interesting that this product is<br />
sold as cola drink and in sweet forms.<br />
It has a caramelized unique taste resembling<br />
both sweet and salty, also<br />
know as umami taste. Therefore, it’s<br />
used mostly in gourmet cuisines. It goes<br />
best with dishes made of red meat. This<br />
processed form is more concentrated<br />
and has more antibiotics and than<br />
fresh garlic and more antioxidants than<br />
pomegranates. The process, actually, is<br />
not fermentation but a reaction called<br />
Maillard.
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