>>3347098Cell walls of plants are made of indigestible cellulose.
You have to break down the cell wall to get the good stuff.
You can do that mechanically or through heating and rupturing it, but when heated the good stuff may be destroyed.
You won't be able to chew efficiently enough to get enough of the good stuff.
You have to use a blender or a juicer.
The positive effect in test rats was seen at the rate of 4g of fresh onion juice per kilogram of rat mass.
For a 160 pound person that would equal a little over 10 ounces of onion juice or around 1 and 1/4 cups of juice.
That's a lot of onions.
Try not to puke.
Here's the study this stuff came from:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19384830There's of course no data on its effects on humans, though onions have a long history as being considered an aphrodisiac.
