REASONS WHY WE CRY WHILE CUTTING 🧅 ONIONS (THE SIMPLE 🧪 SCIENCE BEHIND IT )

Sometimes while cutting onions to cook , Before I finished the second one, tears will start comming out from my eyes....My eyes were peppering me like I put pepper inside...I always had to run out of the kitchen with my eyes struggling to open.

Why does onion make us cry?; here is my research.....👇

Inside onion, there is a chemical called sulfur.....When you cut the onion, you break its cells and that sulfur mixes with air....It forms a gas__That gas is called syn-propanethial-S-oxide.

That gas flies up from the onion straight to your eyes...Your eyes are very sensitive.......When the gas touches your eyes, it mixes with the water in your eyes and turns to small acid.....That acid is what irritates your eyes.

Your eyes now want to protect themselves, so they produce tears to wash away that acid.....That is why you start crying without being sad....It is your eyes trying to clean themselves.

Some onions make you cry more than others.....Strong onions have more sulfur, so they produce more gas....And if you use dull knife, you break more cells, so more gas comes out.

How to stop it? Use sharp knife, cut onions under small fan, or put onions inside fridge for 15 minutes before cutting.....Cold slows down the gas.

So next time you cry while cutting onions, remember, it is not that you are emotional...It is just science🧪🌡️__The onion is fighting back.

Do you also cry when you cut onions? 🌚🌚🌚 I Think we all do right?

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