"Maximizing Health Benefits: The Raw Truth About Onions and Disease Prevention"
Dr. Poonam Desai, an emergency medicine physician, claims that eating raw onions, particularly red onions, can lower disease risk due to their high quercetin content, which provides powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Quercetin is known to reduce the risk of heart disease, high cholesterol, and prostate cancer. Eating onions raw and choosing outer layers with more quercetin is recommended to maximize health benefits. Additionally, quercetin can also be found in other foods such as red wine, green tea, berries, and apples, which also offer various health benefits including fiber and probiotics.