Sweet Yellow Onions
Brings Co. offers a year-round supply of sweet onions.

Sweet Onions taste milder because they have less sulfur compounds than regular yellow onions.  It’s the pyruvic acid in the sulfur that causes tears, harshness and indigestion.  Sweet onions are always grown in soil with low amounts of sulfur to keep the acid levels low in the onion.  Typically, sweet onions have pyruvic acid levels that measure below 5% (compared to regular yellow onions running at 10 to 13% levels).   Another factor attributing to sweet onion’s mild flavor is the sugar content.  Sweet onions should contain at least 6% sugar to be in the “sweet” category.  Some sweet onions, like the Oso Sweet from Chile, have recorded sugar levels of up to 15%.