How to eat onions is the most nutritious: the benefits of eating onions, raw or cooked onions are better?

Do you usually eat onions raw or cooked? generally speaking, they are cooked and then eaten. Most people are more acceptable to fried onions, but do you know? In fact, onions can be eaten raw. And the nutritional value of raw food is higher than that of cooked food. Why is that? Is it better to eat raw than cooked? This is not true, it depends on one's physique.

What are the benefits of eating onions? Onions are low-calorie vegetables, containing a variety of "sulfides", which can help lower blood sugar and blood lipids; "polyphenols" can detoxify and resist oxidation; and "quercetin" can not only inhibit the body's absorption of food fat, but also promote the excretion of fat stored in the body, but also can fight cancer. In addition, it contains flavonoids, dietary fiber, glutathione, oligosaccharides and so on.

The vitamins B and C of onions will be destroyed when heated, and water heating will also lead to the loss of potassium ions, so the more cooked the onions, the less nutrients. Li Wanping, deputy head of the nutrition consulting group at Rongxin Clinic, said that from a health point of view, eating onions raw is still slightly better than cooked food. It should be noted that raw onions contain irritating ingredients. Those with poor stomach and intestines should avoid eating raw to avoid stomachache.