Why are raw red onions spicy?

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Why are raw red onions spicy?

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Same reason raw white onions are spicy…they’ve got a sulphur compound in them that reacts with water to form a chemical that we taste as spicy (and pisses our eyes off). Heating breaks the compound down so you don’t get this with cooked onions.

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