This kind of root crop gives us much nutrients that we can benefit daily.

Onions are a nutrient-dense food, meaning that while they are low in calories they are high in beneficial nutrients like vitamins, minerals and antioxidants with nutrients such as calories, carbohydrate, fibre, protein and vitamin C, vitamin B-6 and manganese. Onions also contain small amounts of calcium, iron, folate, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium and the antioxidants quercetin and sulphur.

The possible health benefits of consuming onions include lowering the risk of several types of cancer, like prostate cancer, colon cancer and frequent intake of allium vegetables or onion has been inversely related with the risk of oesophageal and stomach cancer. And it also improving mood and maintaining the health of skin and hair. Onions are a source of the strong antioxidant vitamin C that helps to combat the formation of free radicals known to cause cancer and vitamin C is needed for the building and maintenance of collagen, which provides structure to skin and hair. Folate, found in onions, may help with depression by preventing an excess of homocysteine from forming in the body excess homocysteine interferes with the production of the feel-good hormones serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, which regulate not only mood, but also sleep and appetite as well.