A new study found that regularly eating onions and garlic may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Wooo! Y'all, this is great news for me! I put onions and garlic in just about everything I cook!
The study was done on a group of Puerto Rican woman, whose diets were high in onions and garlic (specifically, sofrito).
“We found that among Puerto Rican women, the combined intake of onion and garlic, as well as sofrito, was associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer,” said Gauri Desai, the study’s lead author, who is an epidemiology PhD student in UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions.
In fact, those who consumed sofrito more than once per day had a 67% decrease in risk compared to women who never ate it. The idea for the study stemmed from previous scientific evidence showing that eating onions and garlic may have a protective effect against cancer.
Eat up!