Onions?

[HoneyRockette]

What is wrong with eating onions? I mean besides the obvious (makes you smelly). I should know this but I don't or at least I am in denial because I like onions.

[londongirl3]

I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE onions and garlic, what's wrong with them? (Not that it matters really because I will still eat them /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif)

[HoneyRockette]

I'm dying to know London. I ordered veggie fried rice today at lunch with extra onions and my coworkers flipped out. They didn't tell me what was wrong with them. I don't want them to know I don't know because, you know, I SHOULD know, but I don't so I am asking here. I probably won't stop eating onions either. Everything I eat is so bland because I don't eat sauce. Onions give it that extra kick without making everything slimy. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

They probably didn't want you to have the extra onions b/c it makes your breath smell hideous! I don't like onions for that sole reason /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Tebby1017]

I'm not really sure why, but my cousin told me that onions are fattening /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif. I really need to ask her why. I love onions too and I thought they were a good seasoning for dishes without adding a bunch of calories and bad stuff.


On the otherhand, I read that onions are a food that takes more calories for your body to burn than it does to consume (i.e. if you eat 5 calories of onions it take 10 calories to burn them).

Let me do more research /forums/images/graemlins/fan.gif....

Tebby

[hairfanatic]

Hi HoneyRockette,

I know a lot of health people say that when you eat raw onions they cause you to crave heavy foods because of how they effect the taste buds. I usually always barbecue or saute them so that they become soft and only eat them if I must. One of my son's love them raw but he can afford to have his appetite increased. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Oh, that's also the same for garlic.

[Integrity]

i dont like raw onions BUT when i cook i put in as much as possible!!! i will also eat them lightly fried in a burger or salad but never raw due to the smell. i love onions!!! /forums/images/graemlins/lick.gif


Edited to add: But raw SPRING onions (the green long bit) chopped up is excellent in potatoe salad with all the mayonnaise and some crunchy bacon bits thrown in as well. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[hairfanatic]

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Edited to add: But raw SPRING onions (the green long bit) chopped up is excellent in potatoe salad with all the mayonnaise and some crunchy bacon bits thrown in as well.

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Pandora,

That does sound good. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Did you honestly think you would get away without giving out the recipe...come on let's have it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Integrity]

recipe, i dont have exact recipe in terms of specific quantities i just make it by eye so hear goes!!

you need,

boiled diced potatoes (dont cook them too much or u might end up with mashed potatoes instead, cook it so u can bite them well)
mayo
a lil salad cream
spring onions(finely diced)
fried pieces of bacon
sliced boiled eggs

potatoes in a bowl with onions and bacon and add your mayo and lil salad cream to taste and stir carefully and well. add the eggs and stir in. delicious hot or cold, alone or with fried or baked chicken! /forums/images/graemlins/lick.gif

[hairfanatic]

Thank you so much for that recipe, I appreciate it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Integrity]

welcome! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Katrine]

A book I have (Jean Carper: Stop aging now! 1997) only mentions good thing about onions (especially red and yellow).

-ingreasing HDL
-thinning blood
-preventing cancer (especially in the stomach)
-lots of antioxidants. There among quercetin which should act like an antibiotic on bacteries, vira etc. Preventing LDL in getting toxic.

Apparently onions is used to dissolve blood clots on horses .

Maybe some news studies are showing that onions is terrible for the health, just like the benefits of taking large doses of vitamins is being supported and rejected simultaneously.

I looked at her sources and only found one mentioning onion in the title:

Makheja,A.:Antiplatelet constituents of garlic and onions.
Agent Actions 1990;29(3-4):360-63

If you want me to list the ones mentioning Garlic just let me know.

-Katrine

[Jade21]

Katrine is sort of right with two trends going on at the same time. I like what you posted about the onions, Katrine /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

But, apparently, I think those folks barked at you because of the limiting carbs craze. I picked this up from a bulletin board from a Google Search: boiled onions have 3.7grams of carbs, fried onions have 14.1 grams of carbs, and 7.9grams for raw onions. From the discussion, I'd estimate they were talking about 1/4 cup of onions. More than a garnish, but not a meal amount.

My favorite is an organic red onion...yum on fish and chicken! Also great in a mushroom pie /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

~Jade~

[Norma]

I THINK /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif...when I was doing a low carb diet they say to be careful, they contain carbs and normally people like to add a lot of onions.