Onion

Onion (Allium Cepa L) is one of the significant condiments extensively consumed in all household all of the year, round the clock. Nature has prearranged us many helpful and useful plants to mankind. One such delightful plant is onion. The Onion is one of the primogenital cultivated herbs.

Bestowing to the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, Pakistan is the 5th foremost onion producing country now.

Onion is delightful vegetable. Onion would have been a fruit if it had not been spicy and full of sulphuric complex. Onion comes in varying forms and sizes; and has helpful assets for health mostly being fat free. Onion is a vegetable which is most often used to improve flavors in a wide range of recipes, soups, stews, casseroles, salads and pizzas. Onions are also treated for fresh consumption. Onions are a vegetable for all spices and tastes.

Fresh research has recommended that onions in the food may play a part in avoiding heat disease and other sicknesses. Onion Bulb is rich in calcium, carbohydrates and phosphorus. The pungency in onion is due to unstable oil known as 'allyl-propyl' disulphide. Onion's taste is sweet and pungent. Onion is an appetizer and helps in ingestion of food. Onion is a source of energy and acts as stimulant growths vigor and energy, acts as a linctus and diuretic and slows the heartbeat, avoids flatulent and indigestion.