Onion is a relatively common vegetable with a slightly spicy taste. As an auxiliary ingredient in many foods. Onion is not only superior in taste, but also simple to eat. It can be eaten directly or made into a variety of delicious foods. Moreover, people in the south prefer onions mainly because onions can have the effect of removing rheumatism and lowering blood pressure. So let's learn about the benefits of eating onions together?
What are the benefits of eating onions in spring?
Disperse wind-cold
Because the onion bulb and leaves contain an oily volatile substance called propylene sulfide, which has a pungent spicy taste, this substance can resist cold, resist influenza viruses, and has a strong bactericidal effect and is rich in nutrition.
Spicy smell. It can stimulate the stomach, intestines and digestive glands to secrete, increase appetite, promote digestion, and onions contain no fat. Its essential oil contains a mixture of sulfur-containing compounds that can lower cholesterol, and can be used to treat indigestion, loss of appetite, and food stagnation.
Refreshing
It can help cells make better use of glucose, while lowering blood sugar and supplying heat energy to brain cells, making it a good dietary vegetable for patients with diabetes and listlessness.
Onion also has the effect of lowering blood sugar. Because onion contains organic substances similar to the hypoglycemic drug tolbutamide, and it can produce quercetin in the human body, which has a strong diuretic effect. Diabetic patients can eat 25-50 grams of onion per meal to achieve a better effect of lowering blood sugar and diuresis.
The nutrients in onions, such as sugar, protein, various inorganic salts, vitamins, etc., play a certain role in the body's metabolism, better regulate the nervous system, and enhance memory. Its volatile components also have strong functions of stimulating appetite, helping digestion, and promoting absorption. The contained diallyl disulfide, alliin, etc., can also reduce the content of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, thus preventing the hardening of blood vessels.Lower blood pressure
Onion is the only plant that contains prostaglandin A, a natural blood thinner. Prostaglandin A can dilate blood vessels and reduce blood viscosity, thus lowering blood pressure, reducing peripheral vascular resistance and increasing coronary blood flow, and preventing thrombosis. It can also counteract the effect of blood pressure-raising substances in the human body such as catecholamines, and promote the excretion of sodium salts, thereby lowering blood pressure. Regular consumption has a health-care effect on patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Fight asthma
Onion contains at least three natural anti-inflammatory chemicals that can treat asthma. Because onion can inhibit the activity of histamine, and histamine is a chemical that causes asthma allergic symptoms; onion can reduce the probability of asthma attacks by about half.