An onion makes me cry!🧅😭

How fair you my sweet onion
Layered, full of spite but mine
How this day without you in past
Regarded flames
Can you hold still and know
Your best taints everything near
A roundness, a beauty, yet
If a goddess allowed
I would trade all lesser botanicals
Once more for your smile

Your jest, your natural pungence
Yellowless world have you
Void of heart, be an opportunist
Let me dive into the tilled soil
With deft toes tear loose
A bit of sky spiralling ever down
Unthread blueness and wispy clouds
Pull them completely in
That all may know how unkind
An unkindness has been

Garden maestro take a bow
Sky you also bow today
For my sweet onion is frayed
Tightly bruised under fine layers
Deglaze yourself my desire
My martyr, my innocent onion
Rest sweetness, dream once more

Tailor Bell

 Saturday, December 30, 2006

Wow! Tailor Bell, how nicely and sweetly described an onion.

 Onion! I can't imagine my food without it. An onion makes my food delicious and tasty. But this tasty, delicious, sweet onion makes me cry. I decided to find a reason for it and what I got. Ah, surprise!

 Onions are a source of vitamins, calcium, fluoride, iron, nickel and even essential oils. But we all experienced the burning and tearing while cutting up an onion. Cutting an onion burst its cells and produces a chemical process that releases the contents of those cells into the immediate atmosphere, causing us to tear up as we slice and dice. Onions contain amino acid sulfoxides that produce sulfenic acid inside the cells of the onion. When we start cutting an onion, it disrupts the cells and normal cell enzymes mix with the sulfenic acids and it produces propanethiol sulfur oxide; Which is a sulfur chemical that is in form of gas and floats through the air into our eyes. When this gas interacts with the water in our tear film, sulfuric acid is produced; which is not compatible with our tears and our eyes begin to burn. 

Two types of tear production occur inside the eye. Basal tears, the ones that provide basic lubricant to the eye and reflex tears, this type of tears we typically think of when we are crying. Reflex tears are produced in response to emotions and some external irritant. An external irritant, such as dust or smoke, triggers nerve endings in the cornea to communicate with the brain which turns on the lacrimal gland. The lacrimal gland which is under the upper eyelid on the side of your temple creates reflex tears. Our tear glands begin secreting tears to potentially dilute or wash out offending agents.

                       TEARS (When we cut an onion) under MICROSCOPE.

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