Onion: Too Strong for Cancer

It’s not surprising that the only vegetable powerful enough to make you cry is also powerful enough to make you well. Onions are rich in quercetin, a powerful type of antioxidant called a flavonoid that may reduce the risk of cancer. Onions are a member of the same botanical family as garlic, and like garlic they contain allicin, which transforms into organosulfurs—which can lower cholesterol, thin your blood, keep arteries flexible, and kill cancer cells. Red and purple onions deliver anthocyanins, the same antioxidants that make berries a nutritional superstar. Altogether, these nutrients (and many other compounds) add up to …read more