Lifestyles Ideas Management - About Onions

Onions provide health-promoting phytochemicals as well as nutrients. They contain quercetin, a flavonoid (a type of antioxidant compound) which helps eliminate free radicals in the body. Tea and apples contain quercetin and absorption of quercetin from onions is twice that from tea and more than three times that from apples.
Numerous studies have shown quercetin to have beneficial effects against many diseases and disorders, including cataracts, cardiovascular disease as well as cancer of the breast, ovaries, gastric, lung and bladder mentioned in www.onions-usa.org.
Onions may also have a beneficial effect on cholesterol levels and are believed to prevent the biochemical chain of events that leads to asthma and inflammatory reactions from www.health.learninginfo.org/onion-nutrition.htm. Onions are a source of vitamin C, potassium dietary fiber and folic acid. They also contain calcium and iron and have high protein content, are low in sodium and contain no fat. Why do onions make you cry? When you slice an onion, you break open a number of onion cells and a series of rapid chemical happen. The reaction release sulphur which irritates our eyes. Some cooks say that chilling an onion for 30 minutes before peeling I will prevent teary eyes. Wash under the running tap for awhile makes slicing an onion easily without tearing. This is true as I tried before by putting onion in the fridge to peel them later. I will use onions in potatoes patties, onion soup, chicken soup, brown gravy for steak, onion to fried with noodles. Onion for every dishes I could think of, especially the white onions which is sweeter than the red ones.