English: Sweet onion is a variety of onion that is not pungent. There are several varieties of sweet onion. All onions have sugar; sweet onions do not have significantly more sugar than other onions, but they have a very low sulfur content compared to typical onions, and their water content is comparatively very high. These differences reduce their pungency, which makes their sweetness more noticeable.
This image was originally posted to Flickr as sweet onions. Description: I laughed, I cried, I chopped onions. Photographer:crjr2757 Taken on: March 25, 2006
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