Onions: More than Taste to Your Palate

What would cooking in the kitchen be like without the inviting aroma of onions?

Onions, like, garlic are members of the alliums family, and both are rich in powerful sulfur-containing compounds that are responsible for their strong aroma and their health-promoting qualities.

It is a plant that cannot easily be placed either as spices or vegetable.

Onions are rich in chromium, a trace mineral that helps cells respond to insulin, plus vitamin c, and numerous flavonoids notably, quercitin.

Onions are very good sources of manganese, molybdenum, vitamin B and C, folate, potassium, phosphorus and copper.

There are two types of onions – spring and storage …read more