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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Possible metabolic pathways for the partial transformation of alliin and SAC (S-allylcysteine) to AMS (allyl methyl sulfide) upon consuming alliinase-inhibited garlic. For structures, see Figure 1 and Figure 2. Of the three proposals for alliin, only pathway C is likely to be relevant.