Category: onion

The Benefits of Superfood, Onion: How to Maximize Its Full Potential

Onion, a world-class superfood, is versatile in various cuisines and offers valuable health benefits. It can aid in weight loss, lower blood sugar, and help prevent cancer and dementia. Onions are a great source of nutrients such as folate, calcium, iron, dietary fiber, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and potassium. Additionally, they are low in calories…


Deputy Dressed as Grinch Gives Onions to Speeding Drivers

MARATHON, Fla.—Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch. Col. Lou Caputo, a 37-year veteran of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office who conjured up the concept more than…


Authorities Seize Nearly $3M Worth of Meth in Onion Shipment

SAN DIEGO—Authorities seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego, officials announced Friday. A K-9 unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted to the trailer’s shipment of onions on Sunday and officers found nearly 1,200 small packages of…


Authorities Seize Nearly $3 Million Worth of Meth in Onion Shipment

SAN DIEGO—Authorities seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego, officials announced Friday. A K-9 unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted to the trailer’s shipment of onions on Sunday and officers found nearly 1,200 small packages of…


The Simple Pleasure of a Bowl of Dip

Let’s be honest. Life has been a little stressful of late. In times of anxiety and uncertainty, some self-care is warranted. I am not talking cleanses and fasts, folks, I am talking indulgences, because, well, we deserve it. When our sheltering days are clocked by changes of clothing from morning PJs to home-office athleisure attire,…


Can an Onion a Day Keep the Doctor Away?

Onions have a long history of medicinal use. Many experts believe that the first onions appeared in Central Asia. Most agree the vegetable has been cultivated for nearly 5,000 years and might be one of the first cultivated crops since they are easy to grow and transport, and have a long shelf life. Gaius Plinius…