Black onion is found in many specialties and gives a special taste to dishes. If onion is your favorite vegetable, you will have fun reading some lesser-known facts about this vegetable. If you don't really like onions, you will surely love them after reading these interesting facts.
1. Egyptian pharaohs were buried with onions, because this vegetable was a symbol of eternity.
2. In Ancient Greece, athletes used onion in various forms to make them stronger and more durable. So they ate onions in large quantities, drank juice from this vegetable and rubbed their bodies with onions.
3. Apicius, the Roman author of the first cookbooks, mentions onion as one of the basic ingredients in many of his recipes.
4. In the Middle Ages, onions were not only used in cooking, but also as a cure for headaches, hair loss, and snake bites.
5. The American settlers brought onions with them on the Mayflower ship, but they discovered that the natives had already made extensive use of this vegetable in cooking, dyeing clothes, and even as toys.
6. Libya is the country with the highest consumption of onions in the world, 32 kilograms of this vegetable is consumed per inhabitant per year.
7. Onion can help with coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis.
8. Onion peel can be used to dye fabric and Easter eggs.
9. On contact with air, chemicals from onions produce sulfur-based gas. This is why we cry while chopping these vegetables.
10. China produces almost 20 million tons of onions per year.
11. According to scientific research, onions can prevent colon cancer.
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