The Benefits of Onions
Disease description:
Mom bought a lot of onions, I don't like eating onions, but she said they are good for you. What are the health benefits of onions?
Doctor's answer (1)
Dr. Yang Ziqi
Onion is a vegetable with very high nutritional value, containing abundant sulfides, flavonoids, vitamin C, vitamin B6, potassium, and dietary fiber. The health benefits of onions mainly include the following:
1. Promotes digestion: Onions are rich in dietary fiber, which can stimulate intestinal motility, improve constipation, and their unique aromatic compounds can also help stimulate gastric juice secretion and enhance appetite.
2. Beauty and skin care: Onions contain the trace element selenium, which can eliminate free radicals in the body, enhance cellular vitality and metabolic capacity, and help reduce wrinkles.
3. Antioxidant effects: Flavonoids in onions, such as quercetin, have strong antioxidant properties, helping to remove free radicals in the body and slow down the cellular aging process.
4. Anti-inflammatory effects: Active compounds in onions have anti-inflammatory properties that can reduce inflammatory responses and may help alleviate inflammatory conditions such as arthritis.
5. Cardiovascular protection: The sulfides and flavonoids in onions can lower blood pressure, reduce platelet aggregation, prevent atherosclerosis, and provide protective effects on the cardiovascular system.
