Waitrose to start selling onions that won’t make you cry

Dread slicing onions no extra (Image: Getty/Sunions)

Everyone knows how irritating chopping an onion may be as eyes start to sting and water.

Quickly it gained’t need to be this fashion, due to a brand new onion product coming to market.

Offered as being ‘for tearlessness’, the primary onions of this type are about to launch in Waitrose.

The candy onion is grown within the US by Sunions and based on Waitrose, the delicate flavour means they’re ultimate for house cooking and use in a mixture of meals and salads.

These with delicate eyes gained’t have to endure the irritation that comes with cooking with onions for for much longer.

Paul Bidwell, an onion purchaser at Waitrose instructed Femail: ‘We perceive how a-peeling tearless onions are to our clients which is why we’re delighted to launch Sunions.’

He added they’re ‘ultimate for taking the tears out of the kitchen, the sweetness of one of these onion lends itself completely to a wide range of dishes, from salads to scorching.’

Launching on January 18, they’ll be accessible on-line and in shops.

You should buy the particular onions at Waitrose (Image: Shutterstock / cornfield)

So what’s totally different about them?

Common onions produce an irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide, which stimulates the eyes, inflicting sulfenic acid to construct up – this creates tear construct up and launch.

It’s most potent when at room temperature, which is why you’ll doubtless cry whereas chopping onions within the kitchen.

The discharge of the chemical is definitely a protection mechanism to being reduce.

Some folks have extra delicate lachrymal glands than others, which is why not everyone seems to be affected by chopping onions in the identical means.

Sunions work in another way – they’re a pure cross-breed with a decrease focus of lachrymatory-factor synthase.

They’ve taken years to develop (Image: Sunions)

This implies they don’t trigger our eyes to create as a lot acid.

Although they’re not genetically modified, they’re the product of greater than three a long time of farming, analysis and growth.

Their web site reads: ‘Sunions are at the moment grown solely in Nevada and Washington. 

‘Their tearless high quality and unbelievable flavour profile that's constantly candy, delicate and crunchy is all due to a tightly-controlled model promise that Sunions have to be licensed to be each tearless and candy earlier than delivery to grocery shops.’