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Calories Onion
- Health Benefits, Nutrition and Vitamins
Onions
are low in calories, it is a good, healthy vegetable
particularly when eaten raw. The amount of calories
in onions depends on the way that the
onion is cooked for example if the onion is
baked, grilled, roasted, steamed or boiled. The
following calorie guide can be used to calculate the
amount of calories in onion:
Calories in Onion per 100 grams:
Flesh only
- 36 calories
Boiled - 17 calories
Dried - 313 calories
Fried in oil - 164 calories
Red caramelized - 213
Pickled, drained - 24
The Healthiest Ways to Cook Onions
- Health Benefits, Nutrition and Vitamins
Onions are not as strong once they
have been cooked. This is because the natural pungent
acids that the vegetable contains, decreases throughout
the cooking process. There are many different cooking
methods for onions including boiling, frying, roasting,
baking, sautéing, *sweating and caramelized.
* Sweating is a cooking method
where the vegetable or onion is fried in a little fat with the
lid on.
Varieties and Types of
Healthy Onion
- Health Benefits, Nutrition and Vitamins
There are many types of onions available - 325 healthy
onion types including wild varieties. Some of the most popular
types of onion and most widely recognized are:
Red Onion:
The red variety is also known as Italian Onions. This is
a delicious tasting variety that is somewhat milder that
many of the other types of onion and provides a much sweeter
taste and flavor. This vegetable has deep red skin
(outer plant leaves) and beneath the red skin lie layer
upon layer of crisp, sweet tasting onion which is white
and blushed with red. This variety is particularly easy
to eat and is often used raw in salads.
Spanish Onion:
The hotter the climate for planting and growing onions,
the milder the taste of the vegetable. Therefore,
Spanish Onions, which have a vitalizing and healthy
appearance, are quite mild in taste when compared to
other varieties such as the Yellow variety. The Spanish
Onion variety has pale, copper skin (outer leaves) and it is
larger in size than the Yellow Onion. The Spanish
Variety can also be eaten raw is often used in salads.
Yellow Onion:
This variety is not actually yellow in color or
appearance, it is in fact golden brown and it is a
popular multi-purpose vegetable. This is a very strong
tasting type - very pungent! In fact, this is the
strongest variety that is grown and is available, and it
is excellent when used in cooking recipes. The small
type of yellow onion is particularly good for picking
and is named either baby, button or pickling.
White Onion:
This type is grown to all different sizes and they
differ in strength, there is no telling the strength of
this variety. The larger sized onion can be either strong or
mild. This is a multi-purpose onion.
Vidalid Onion:
This variety of onion originates from America and the name
derives from a town in Georgia, USA. This variety is
deliciously tasteful and sweet. It is large in size and
has pale yellow skin.
Spring Onions:
The Spring onion variety is mild and have small white bulbs
with green tops. Both parts of the onion plant can be
eaten and are extremely beneficial to our health. This
particular onion is
harvested very young and tastes mild in flavor. This
particular variety is great for stir-frys and salads.
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