They are both white and they are chock full of protective phytonutrients, vitamins, and trace minerals that aren't easy to find
elsewhere in a normal diet... such nutrients as allicin, quercetin (an important flavonoid), chromium, and other unique anti-inflammatory nutrients.
As the body attempts to maintain the integrity of the small intestinal lining at all costs, proteins that would ordinarily be used for
normal growth and repair
elsewhere may be appropriated instead for emergency repairs
in the intestinal tract.45, 46 Furthermore, lectins consumed with the
diet may travel through the damaged «leaky gut» into general circulation, provoking allergic reactions and immune system disruption.