Lower Diabetes Risk;
Scientists have known for a long time that eating onions can increase the amount of available insulin in your system after a meal. Insulin is necessary to process the sugar in food, and the allyl propyl disulphidein an onion takes up some of the available spots in the liver where insulin becomes inactivated. Therefore, more insulin remains free to manage blood sugar levels.
Type 2 diabetes occurs when insulin becomes ineffective at processing glucose, usually because there is too much sugar, too often. Eating onions regularly ensures that there is always enough available insulin to do the job without becoming overburdened. We still recommend watching your sugar intake, though.
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