My current favorite (and my cat's) is tiki pets cat food in the Kitchen Fowl Ball. Most of Tiki's are 0% carbs, besides the varieties with rice. Wellness natural is another cat food I've come across and strongly prefer as it contains only premium and all natural ingredients and 100% grain free...
It takes less than 1g of garlic per kg of body weight to harm a cat (it's about 5 times as potent as onion, which is a problem past 5g per kg). Your cat's 1 lick shouldn't have been enough -- you didn't say how much your cat weighed, but to be safe, I've set your cat's weight to be 8 lbs (~3.6...
