The pivotal roles of vegetables are predominantly important for health\ndue to availability of minerals, vitamins, phytochemicals and antioxidants. These\nfoods and food products those are prepared from such kind of material having natural\norigin have great importance due to their versatile nature. Onion importance is\ngreatly increasing and now it has become second most medicinal and horticultural\ncrop after tomatoes. It has multiple functional compounds including organosulphur,\nanthocyanins, flavonoids, quercetin, kaempferol and polyphenols. Antibacterial,\nanti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties are the various diverse functions of\nonions, which have sound effects on human health. Fructo-oligosaccharides are\npresent in abundant quantity in it due to which the growth of potentially harmful\nbacteria in the colon is retarded by the oligomers thus reducing the risk of emerging\ntumors in the colon and also initiates the growth of healthy bifidobacterium. In\nthe nutshell, the onion and onion by-products have a lot of bioactive compounds\nagainst certain metabolic disorders.
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