It's not just that, but the number of cuts made also increases the amount of different compounds mixing after being separated by cell walls which causes them to form new compounds.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What about chewing?

[–] LallyLuckFarm 16 points 3 months ago

Chewing will cause them to mix as well, but there's less time for the compounds to catalyze and "mature" to change the flavor very much

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Building on what Lally mentions, when cutting onions for food you're supposed to let them sit a whole so said reactions can occur. About 5m from what I've been old.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

What if you're closer than five meters from what you've been old? /j