Skin food - Onions

Onions may bring a tear to your eye and pungency to your breath, but they will also bring beauty to your skin. They contain vitamin C and quercetin, great antioxidants that can protect your skin from the wrinkle-forming damage caused by free radicals, which form in the presence of inflammation and sunlight.

Acne Warriors
There is yet another way that onions support beautiful skin. In one cup (160 g) of onions, you get 20 percent of your recommended daily intake of chronium, which is important in the battle against acne. Chronium helps to reduce skin bacterial infections and thus helps battle acne.

Avocado, Grapefruit, Pomegranate, and Red Onion Salad

This delightful, fruity salad is bursting with flavor and nutrients to help your skin look its best. Avocados moisturize, grapefruit fights acne and psoriasis, onions prevent wrinkles, and pomegranate rids your skin of redness and puffiness. This perfect lunch or light dinner will awaken your taste buds and enhance your skin.  

Ingredients:
1 pomegranate
2 medium or 1 large grapefruit (pink or red)
1 ripe Haas avocado
90 g baby spinach leaves, well-rinsed and dried
1/2 red onion, peeled, sliced thin and separated into rings

1. Cut the pomegranate in half, pull back the tough outer peel, and pull out the segments of seeds. Continue cutting as necessary to expose all the seeds. Break the seeds up and remove any membrane. Set seeds aside in a small bowl.

2. Peel the grapefruit by cutting away the skin and pith. Cut the grapefruit into slices or sections. Set aside in a medium bowl.

3. Peel the avocado and remove the pit. Cut the avocado into 1.25 cm slices and fold them into grapefruit (the juice from the grapefruit will help keep the avocado from turning brown).

4. Divide spinach among four plates; top each with the avocado and grapefruit mixture, then with  rings of red onion and pomegranate seeds.

Yield: 4 servings

*Note: If you have trouble removing the seeds from your pomegranate, try this easy trick. Cut off the crown of the pomegranate and slice the fruit into sections. Place the sections in a bowl of water and gently roll out the seeds with your fingers. The seeds will sink to the bottom and the membrane will float to the top.

Nutritional analysis
Each serving provides: 55 calories; 0.3 g total fat; 0 g saturated fat; 2 g proteins; 13 g carbohydrate; 2 g dietary fiber; 0 mg cholesterol.