Mark's Extensive and Exhaustively Researched Gallery of Completely, Totally, and Utterly Useless Facts about Onions Chefs started using onions 5,000 years ago to spice up their cooking. Eating raw onions is good for unblocking a stuffed nose. Onions are low in calories and a good source of vitamin C, calcium, potassium and fibre. Onions get their distictive smell by soaking up sulphur from the soil. Cooking destroys the eyewatering agent. Onions help reduce cholestrol if eaten after a fatty meal. Onions help circulation. A sliced raw onion helps relive a bee sting. (Kindly ignore this sentence. It is merely for formating purposes.) 8 Facts |