So, while you might not think it matters whether you choose a sweet versus a yellow onion for your recipe, you will be surprised to learn that there’s a world of difference between them.

This type of soil gives the sweet onions about half as much pyruvic acid as yellow onions. Pyruvic acid is the compound that gives onions their bite and causes you to cry when you chop them.

They have proportionately more water than the yellow onions, which makes them a little more perishable. Small to very large (as much as 1 1/4 pounds), whites taste sweet on first bite, but then ...

the most popular ones include yellow onions, red onions, white onions, pearl onions, shallots, scallions (called green onions), sweet onions and Spanish onions. Though having to slice or dice an ...

The Collinses grow 500 acres of sweet onions. This year’s Vidalia onion crop started out as seeds of granex yellow onions, planted in fields in September and October. After about eight weeks in ...

When making caramelized onions, yellow onions are a traditional choice ... leaving behind the wine’s sweet, floral essence. My recipe calls white wine or vermouth, and you don’t need an ...