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Make Onions Even Healthier with This Storage Trick

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Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:39 am (PDT)

Make Onions Even Healthier with This Storage Trick

Onions are fairly bursting with antioxidants and other nutritious

goodies.

But you can get even more out of them if you tuck them away for a

spell.

Storing red onions for several months may boost their levels of

cancer-fighting, heart-disease- diminishing quercetin by up to 30

percent, according

to a new study.

Know Your Onions

Thick-skinned storage onions are the perfect pantry addition. Not

only do

they make a great addition to savory soups, spinach salads, and

crusty-bread sandwiches, but they store well, too. So snap up whatever you can

find this summer, and keep the extras until fall. Choose a cool, dry, dark

location, and store them in a mesh bag, a nylon stocking, or a container that

allows the onions to breathe.

Layers of Nutrition

Onions are one of the very best sources of quercetin. And red

varieties

tend to beat out the yellow ones when it comes to nutrition levels.

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