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18 HEALTH FACTS ABOUT ONIONS

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In addition to preventing many diseases, onions are very good for our bodies. In this post, we will discover some health facts about onions.

1. Onions are vegetables with a strong flavour. It is made up of several layers surrounding each other tightly in a round shape, usually brown or red on the outside and white inside.

2. Onions are a vegetable and spice.

3. The longer you cook onions, the more their taste will change and become sweeter.

4. Keep onion in a cool, dry, dark and ventilated environment away from potatoes.

5. Scallions have a small bulb, spring onions have a big bulb and green onions are harvested without any bulb.

6. We have bulb onions such as red onion, white onion and leaf onions such as spring onions, leeks.

7. Garlic is part of the onion family. Shallot onions are very similar to garlic.

8. Spring onion has a large bulb and is usually harvested in spring, which is where it derives its named as spring onion.

9. Some onions are named according to their colour, for example, red onions, yellow onions, white onions, green onions.


10. Sweet onion gets its name from the fact that it is sweet. Sweet onions are sweet because of the less sulfur content in them, which allows the sugar to stand out.

11. Pearl onions can be white, yellow or red in colour and are very small in size.

12. Onions are a biannual bulb, but usually grown as an annual.

13. Both onion bulbs and shoots are edible.

14. Slicing onions releases a sulfur-based vapour that irritates the eyes.

15. China produces the most onions of any country on earth.

16. The Netherlands exports the most onions in the world.

17. Red onion is one of the healthiest onions and is also very easy to find.

18. Onions make you cry because of the sulfur content. Their flavor comes from it.

I hope this facts about onions will help you know important of onions.

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