An email forward has been making the rounds about the purported benefits of onions with regards to preventing illnesses. It listed several "true stories" where cut raw onions placed around a room absorbed all illness- causing viruses and bacteria and helped prevent the people inhabiting the area from coming down with whatever illness was going around at the time. It sounds awesome, but if such a prevalent, inexpensive item such as an onion could prevent the spread of the plague, everyone would know about it and everyone would use it. A quick visit to Snopes proves this to be false, much to the pleasure of pharmaceutical companies everywhere I am sure.
But could you imagine if this were true? People would be wearing raw onion slices on strings around their necks, and the world would stink!
Onions do have health benefits, though. Click here to read about it.
