What would you do - has this ever happened to you?

This is the first time I've experienced this.

I had a bunch of garlic that I bought a few weeks back. It was from a local grocer but marked "product of China". Last night I decided to pulverize it and dehydrate it. I opened all the bulbs to separate each clove prior to throwing them into the blender. After adding a little water and blending what came out was a creamy white substance I spread out on dehydrator trays.

Prior to this, I had used my dehydrator to dry a bunch of onion - also pulverized and made into a paste to spread out on the trays. The bottom tray hadn't completely dried though - so I left it in while using the remaining empty trays to spread the garlic paste around.

This morning - I looked and much of the garlic paste is a bright GREEN! Panic - did I miss some off garlic? I didn't notice any when I was blending it. Did it spread everywhere?

Look online...read a few articles where this can happen because of certain chemical reactions that have to do both with a heat change and garlic and onion exposed to each other at the same time.


So now I have a bunch of dehydrated green garlic. I'm not sure whether to keep it. It's not like I spent a whole bunch on it - maybe $4 or something all told.

Have you ever experienced this with garlic, either cooking or dehydrating it??

I don't normally taste test garlic on it's own - so I couldn't tell you if there was a difference between this and non-green garlic - but it was very strong.

I've decided to keep it. I found a few more articles detailing the same thing from different sources. That - and I don't think it's possible for garlic to go off so quick even if I had missed a rotten bit. I don't think I did - I checked all the cloves and there was no hint of decay that I could see at any time prior to this morning - not in the cloves, not after they were blended - and the green was not moldy green - but bright green, almost fluorescent.

I'll be mindful though. If for some reason I start seeing smurfs or something dancing around my kitchen after eating a garlic flavored meal - I'll know where to look.