My 2-year-old son was helping me cook dinner this week. I gave him the task of chopping up some raw onion and noticed he starting eating the little pieces he was cutting. I was disgusted at first but, as he kept taking more bites of onion, I wondered what potential benefits there are to actually eating onion in it’s raw form. Turns out there are quite a few!
Onions support your overall health. This vegetable is loaded with vitamins, antioxidant and inflammatory properties which can help boost your immunity, lower your blood pressure, control blood sugar, and support a healthy heart.
Onions are great for digestion. Because this vegetable is loaded with fiber and prebiotics, this vegetable will support your overall gut health. Prebiotics are non-digestable carbs that act as a source of food for our gut’s health bacteria.
Onions have cooling properties. On a hot summer’s day, eating a raw onion can help cool you down due to the vegetable’s natural oils that help balance the body’s temperature. Very cool!
Fortunately, if raw onion completely grosses you out or you aren’t medically able to enjoy this more acidic vegetable, you’re going to get a lot of these benefits from eating more onions in general. But experts recommend you eat onion in it’s raw form to maximize these great benefits! Knowing all of this, are you up for increasing the amount of raw onion in your diet?