Ditch the goggles and the half-baked hacks to stop the tears as you prepare to cut into your next onion. Instead, try experimenting with a new onion variety that promises no tears over the cutting board.
The proprietary tearless onion variety Sunions begins its 2022-23 season at the end of November and lasts through early spring 2023.
Over three decades of natural plant breeding and research has yielded a tear-free onion with a mild, slightly sweet flavor and distinctive crunch. What makes the variety so unique is that, while most onions get more pungent as they are stored in cellars and pantries, the Sunions variety gets sweeter, milder and easier on the eyes.
“Sunions are a rare product in that they become more tearless and sweeter the longer they store,” Kaitlyn O’Neal, regional crop lead for Sunions, said in a news release. “They undergo triple testing to ensure quality and are not released until they are in prime condition.”
Available commercially since 2018 and marketed exclusively by Onions 52 and Peri & Sons Farms, Sunions are grown domestically in Nevada, Utah and Washington and available in grocery stores nationally.
