Thread by @shrikanth_krish

I made a few piquant notes on onion earlier in the day which caused many "liberals" to defend the incredible nutritional value of this remarkable vegetable ;)

The defenders were oh so keen to prove that there is nothing quite like onion in one's diet

This was v much understandable given that onion is your classic "anti-Hindu" vegetable (or should I say anti-brahminical dish)

So it makes a lot of political sense to defend its virtues

Yet the fact remains that onion is among the least nutritious of all the vegetables you can consider for lunch

Let's start assessing the vitamins you get from a v large serving of raw onion (160 grams)

As you can see, there is not a single vitamin whose % Daily value (% DV) is in excess of even 20%, except Vitamin C

So even gulping a huge amount of onion (160gm) doesn't meet even 25% of the daily nutritional requirement of even a single vitamin

Let's compare this with Carrots

Here's the nutrition data for a much smaller serving (128g) as compared to 160g which we discussed for Onion

Carrots meet over 400% of your daily Vitamin A requirement. Over 20% of Vitamin K, 13% of Vitamin C

Much much richer than Onion

Let's now move to Tomato

With a serving of 149 gm (smaller than the onion serving), you get this -

25% of the daily Vitamin A requirement
32% of Vitamin C
15% of Vitamin K

Beats Onion hands down

Let's now move to Broccoli
This is a super dish in my view

With a small serving of just 91 grams, you get -

135% of your daily Vitamin C requirement
116% of Vitamin K
11% of Vitamin A (0% for onion mind you)
and much more

And yes, unlike Onion, none of these vegetables give you a bad odor nor do they have a mild sedative effect of the sort that Onion has (at least I am not aware)

There are umpteen vegetables whose nutritional value exceeds that of Onion

This is easily one of the most dispensable of all vegetables

Data for this thread comes from nutritiondata.self.com