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What do you know about the 11 benefits of eating onions

Onion, belonging to Liliaceae, is our regular food. Onion, containing prostaglandin A, can reduce blood pressure, refreshing. It has the effect of health care. Here are 11 benefits of eating onions. We can eat more in our life

1. Cancer prevention: the anti-cancer effect of onion comes from its rich selenium and quercetin. Selenium is an antioxidant, which can stimulate the immune response of human body, so as to inhibit the division and growth of cancer cells, and also reduce the toxicity of carcinogens. Quercetin can inhibit the activity of cancer cells and prevent the growth of cancer cells. According to a survey, people who often eat onions are 25% less likely to have stomach cancer than those who don't, and 30% less likely to die from stomach cancer.

2. Prevent aging: glycosylation of protein will cause physical dysfunction and produce age related substances. Onion can control blood sugar, indirectly prevent age generation and prevent aging. Flavonoids from Dendrobium are powerful antioxidants, which can inhibit the aging caused by free radicals.

3. Lowering blood sugar: onion can be used as an antidiabetic. Because according to the clinical trials of lowering blood sugar, it really has 80% effect and will not cause hypoglycemia. It is a safe and effective antidiabetic food.

4. Prevention of cold: Spicy onion taste, mild temperature. It has the function of dispersing wind and cold. Eating onions raw can prevent colds. The white skin onion is suitable for eating raw.

5. Help digestion: onion taste strong stimulation, can stimulate gastrointestinal gland secretion. So as to increase appetite and help digestion.

Help clear blood: the level of fibrinolytic state (dissolving fiber to make blood circulation smooth) is related to hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis & hellip. According to the experiment, people who eat enough onion every week have the highest fibrinolytic activity, while those who don't eat or eat less have low fibrinolytic activity. It can be seen that onion can improve fibrinolytic activity and achieve the effect of clearing blood.

7. Improve constipation: onion sulfur component in the large intestine and protein, or intestinal bacteria combined to form hydrogen sulfide, can promote intestinal peristalsis. The rich soluble food fiber can stimulate the intestine, make the movement more vigorous, and the oligosaccharide can also inhibit the proliferation of intestinal bad bacteria, effectively improve the common constipation symptoms of girls.

8. Prevention of osteoporosis: the Dendrobium flavone contained in onion has the effect similar to estrogen, which can be compared with female hormone or osteoporosis drugs. There are research reports that eating 200-300g onion every day can effectively prevent osteoporosis.

9. Whitening and beautifying: glutathione can also inhibit melanin production, improve eczema, dermatitis, urticaria or liver spots. The flavonoids of Dendrobium can resist UV and have whitening effect.

10. Sterilization and disinfection: onion has strong sterilization function, which can kill Staphylococcus aureus and diphtheria.

11. Lowering blood pressure: onion has a good effect on lowering blood pressure and blood sugar. It can also prevent thrombosis. Onion is very good for people with high blood pressure, high blood fat and high blood sugar.

The specific efficacy of onion has been introduced in detail for you in the above. I believe that you should love and hate onion as a kind of food now. If you want to eat onions and are afraid of the smell of onions irritating your eyes, you can soak the cleaned onions in water for a while, then take them out and cut them or slice them, so the smell will be significantly reduced.