Garlic is a vegetable (Allium sativum) that belongs to the Allium class of bulb-shaped plants, which also includes onions, chives, leeks, and scallions. Garlic is used for flavoring in cooking and is unique because of its high sulfur content. Garlic also contains arginine, oligosaccharides, flavonoids, and selenium all of which may be beneficial to health. Garlic has a variety of Benefits effects, as it helps to control: Blood sugar, high cholesterol, chemo-preventive effects, anti-fungal, antibacterial and anti-parasites. Garlic has a variety of antitumor effects including: tumor cell growth inhibition, inhibit the development of chemically induced tumors, block covalent binding of carcinogens to DNA, enhance degradation of carcinogens, have anti-oxidative and free radical scavenging properties, and regulate cell proliferation, apoptosis, and immune responses.