I completely forgot to mention this. I made the switch about 2 years ago to garlic grown in California (fresh and especially granulated). The reason being is that the US import a LOT of garlic from China and that is a terrible thing, namely because forced prison labor is legal there and one of the things prisoners are forced to do is peel garlic. They use their thumbnails to pick off the roots and after thousands of times doing this, it literally, disintegrates their nails, so what do they resort to? Using their teeth. Yes, using their teeth to get rid of the roots on garlic. And there are no health codes/standards over there either and that is the stuff that gets shipped to your supermarket. In short, when you buy garlic, make sure it says it's grown in California. There is more to this, but that is the gist of it.