Garlic has been used for centuries for its flavour and health promoting properties that include protection against cancer. The vinyl disulfide-sulfoxide ajoene is one of the phytochemicals found in crushed cloves, hypothesised to act by S-thiolating reactive cysteines in target proteins. | The garlic compound ajoene covalently binds vimentin disrupts the vimentin network and exerts anti-metastatic activity in cancer cells