Table 3. Health benefits of bioactive ingredients in onions

Health benefits of the bioactive ingredients References
Preventing cardiovascular diseases Lamson et al. (2000)
Antioxidant Ashwin and Sathishkumar, (2014); Sidiq et al. (2013)
Anti-inflammatory Dawud et al., (2016), Hanahan and Weinberg, (2000)
Immunomodulatory effects Savitha et al. (2021)
Tumor promoting inflammation Fuentes et al. (2020)
Reducing the risk of death from coronary heart disease Arshad et al. (2017)
Against arteriosclerosis Kleemann (2011)
Antimicrobial activity against fungal, bacterial and viral infections Cheng et al. (2015)
Anticarcinogenic and antimutagenic activities Shrivastava and Ganesh (2010)
Anti-hypertensive effect and reduce blood pressure Karna et al. (2019)
Anti-hyperglycemic or anti-diabetic potential Baragob et al. (2015)