The benefits of eating raw onions are: preventing diabetes, lowering blood viscosity, anti-cancer, delaying aging, increasing prostaglandin A, removing pimples, inhibiting acne,, protecting the heart, increasing antioxidants, preventing osteoporosis, detoxifying the body, preventing high cholesterol, fighting asthma, and breaking down fatty liver. The bad thing is: people with a bad stomach eat less, irritate the intestines and cause stomach pain.

Eat the benefits of onions

1, hypoglycemic

Onions also have a hypoglycemic effect, because the onion contains organic matter similar to the hypoglycemic drug methylsulfonylbutane vein, and in the body can generate a strong diuretic effect of picric acid. Diabetic patients eat 25~50g of onions per meal can play a better role in lowering blood sugar and diuretic.

2, improve constipation

3, prevent cancer

The cancer prevention effect of onion comes from its rich selenium and quercetin. Selenium is an antioxidant that stimulates the body's immune response, thereby inhibiting the division and growth of cancer cells, while also reducing the toxicity of carcinogens. Quercetin, on the other hand, inhibits cancer-causing cell activity and stops cancer cell growth.

The sulfur component of onions combines with proteins in the large intestine, or bacteria in the intestine, to form hydrogen sulfide, which can promote intestinal motility. The rich soluble dietary fiber can stimulate the intestines to make the movement more vigorous, and the oligosaccharide can also inhibit the proliferation of bad bacteria in the intestines, effectively improving the symptoms of constipation, which is common among girls.

Consumption of onion taboos

(1) onion should not not be overconsumption, because it is easy to produce volatile gases, overconsumption will produce flatulence and exhaust too much, to the person caused by the unpleasant.

(2) onions can be consumed by the general population, it is particularly suitable for diabetes, cancer, acute and chronic enteritis, dysentery patients and hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases, dyspepsia, but the special populations in the consumption of more attention must be paid.

(3) suffering from itchy skin disease, eye disease and stomach disease, lung and stomach inflammation should eat less onion.

(4) People with fever should be cautious of eating onions because they are pungent and warm.