Onions and Your Health A Research backed Guide to Benefits and Nutrition
Onions - Allium cepa - are among the most common and oldest vegetables people eat, and for a very long time, across many cultures, they've been prized not only for their strong taste, but also for the ways they help health. In traditional medicine systems like Ayurveda, and in everyday folk remedies, onions have been used to aid digestion, strengthen the immune system, and get the body working in balance. Current nutrition science now confirms many of those older beliefs, and shows that onions aren't just a tasty food, but a 'functional' food - one with chemicals that affect many parts of your health. When long-term illnesses are becoming more and more common, adding onions to your food every day - in salads, curries, stir-fries, or chutneys - shows both very old knowledge, and what today's studies are finding.
