I was helping my mom in the kitchen today, and when I started chopping onions, my eyes started stinging and tearing up. But then I realized something weird – when we eat onions in our food, they don’t make us cry at all!Can someone explain why onions make us cry when we cut them
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It’s because when cut, the onion releases a gaz. That gaz when it makes contact with the moisture in your eyes creates a reaction which causes you to tear as it irritates your eyes.
When it’s cut in your food, that gaz has already dissipated
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