19/04/2024
🧅🧅SIBUYAS – WHAT ARE THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF ONIONS, HOW TO USE IT CORRECTLY? Onions are one of the popular foods used every day in meals in the Philippines
✅ NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF ONIONS:
- Prevent cancer: Onions help reduce the risk of some cancers such as stomach cancer or colorectal cancer. It is an antioxidant that can inhibit tumor growth.
- Good for heart health: Consuming it can contribute to reducing the risk of heart disease, help reduce high blood pressure as well as protect against blood clots.
- Helps enhance bone health: It helps reduce oxidative stress, increase antioxidant levels, and prevent osteoporosis, increasing bone density.
- Contributes to treating diabetes: Consuming onions helps control blood sugar levels, which is important for people with diabetes.
- Helps enhance digestive health: Helps increase the number of friendly bacteria in the intestines, improve immune function, and fight disease-causing viruses.
- Along with that, there are some other benefits of onions such as helping to prevent insomnia, reduce colds, treat sore throats, improve asthma, sinusitis,...
⚠️ SOME SIDE EFFECTS OF ONIONS:
- Causes bad breath.
- Can increase irritable bowel syndrome, and can easily cause bloating if used excessively.
- Causes gastric reflux.
💥 NOTES FOR USING ONIONS - You should only eat a maximum of about 30-50 grams of onions per day, do not eat too much.
- Avoid eating onions with certain foods such as seaweed, honey, shrimp, or fish.
- In some cases, people with weak physiology, people with stomach pain, people with pink eyes, people with low blood pressure,... should also limit eating onions.
- If you experience any reactions after eating onions, you should see a doctor for assistance in examination, diagnosis, and timely treatment.