Onion powder is used in nutritional health products, functional foods, infant foods, middle-aged and elderly foods, seasonings, solid drinks, cakes, cold foods, convenience foods and pharmaceutical raw materials. It is generally used in families and restaurants to replace many dishes that need fresh onions, so as to improve the taste of dishes and avoid the irritation to eyes and nose during onion processing.
Onion powder can be used as seasoning additive and health food. Onion powder itself can prevent osteoporosis, and its allicin has strong bactericidal ability, which can prevent colds, lower blood pressure and prevent thrombosis. Regular consumption has a health care effect on patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Onion powder is warm and sweet. Has expectorant, diuretic, stomach invigorating, intestine moistening, detoxicating and insecticidal effects. Can be used for treating anorexia, constipation, dysentery, enteritis, insect abdominal pain, traumatic ulcer, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, etc. Prostaglandin A contained in onion powder has obvious hypotensive effect, and thiourea substances contained in onion powder have certain hypoglycemic effect. It can inhibit the increase of blood lipid caused by high-fat diet, and can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis. Onion extract also has bactericidal effect, which can improve gastrointestinal tension and increase digestive tract secretion. There is a peptide in onion, which can reduce the incidence of cancer.