Is it good to eat onions in autumn and winter? What is the difference in nutritional value between white and purple onions?

Onion is one of the main vegetables grown in China, cultivated in both the north and the south, with main producing areas including Fujian, Shandong, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places. We know that eating onions is good for the body, so is it good to eat onions in autumn and winter? What is the difference in nutritional value between white-skinned and purple-skinned onions?

The weather is getting colder and colder. In autumn and winter, the diet should still generally follow the basic principles of a balanced diet and food variety; you can appropriately eat more foods rich in water and eat less spicy food.

The health-preserving food specially recommended for autumn and winter is——porridge, especially lotus seed and ginkgo porridge and Chinese yam and mung bean porridge, which warm the stomach and the heart. Besides warming the body, drinking porridge can also help prevent and treat dry throat and mouth.

Besides steaming hot porridge, hydration in late autumn also depends on fruits and vegetables. For fruits, you can choose pears, pomelos and so on, while for vegetables, carrots, winter melon and so on are recommended. There is also another vegetable whose nutrition should not be underestimated, and that is the onion.

Besides containing rich minerals and vitamins like other vegetables, more importantly, onions are also rich in some phytochemicals that are very beneficial to health, including sulfur-containing compounds and flavonoids.

Onions can be divided into white-skinned onions and purple-skinned onions, and the two differ slightly in nutritional composition. White-skinned onions have higher contents of vitamin C and carotene, while purple-skinned onions have higher contents of dietary fiber and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and iron, as well as flavonoids. Whether white-skinned or purple-skinned, onions are indispensable helpers for health preservation in late autumn.

Now that you have eaten well, do not forget the balance between eating and exercise. It is recommended to do at least one day of exercise every week, and doing at least several 10-minute sessions of exercise every day has a cumulative benefit for health.