It its the gas that the onion releases that reach our eyes and start irritation. Onions produce the chemical irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. It stimulates the eyes' lachrymal glands so they release tears. Also, the irritation to your nose causes some of the tearing as well. To prevent this Cut your onions Cold, Under Running Water, Submerged in water or avoiding to cut the root as that releases most of the gas. Or some people say to chew some mint gum to prevent those tears!
In 2012 the Japanese discovered that lachrymatory-factor synthase released by the onion makes a person tear. You don't cry in the strictest sense, the synthase make the eye produce tears to wash out of the eye.
Because it is the strong potency coming from the onion that reacts with the eye.
That would be an onion. Onions don't cry, but the people who peel them do.
An onion. When you peel off an onion's skin, it may make you cry due to the release of its pungent aroma, but the onion itself cannot cry.
Good enough to make you cry!
You could draw an onion, they make you cry.
By chopping it.
To avoid crying while chopping an onion, you must first remove the bottom portion of the onion. This is where the roots come out and is the place that contains tear-inducing agents. You must remove it correctly or else you'll still cry.
no they dont make you cry the purple onion is sweet so you dont have to chill them
No... just your nose.
yes they particularly make you cry when you are chopping them to stop you from crying you can wear something over your eyes because your eyes are where crying comes from
no it will not the air that makes people cry is frozen and will no longer burn your eyes.