It’s Stacy: Healthy Eats — Boohooing for Onions

Boohooing for Onions

Damaging an onion from slicing and dicing causes a chemical reaction that makes our eyes and nose water. That chemical reaction is short lived. Chilling the onion, soaking in water, and wearing goggles can help cut back on these allergy symptoms.

I remember coming into the kitchen as a little girl and asking my great grandma Arizona Henry why she was sad and crying only to learn we were having French onion…