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Question

Please tell me what is the difference between a yellow onion, a white onion, a red onion, and a vidalia onion? Just curious

Answer 1

Yellow Onion is a variety of dry onion with a strong onion flavor and layers of papery skin, which has a yellow-brown color.

It provides a rich onion taste and good choice for food dishes requiring a strong onion flavor, like French onion soup.

Here is a website to see what it looks like:

http://www.carolina.com/biotech/onion.asp

White onion is a type of dry onion that has a pure white skin and a sweet, mild white flesh.

This onion is used in Mexican foods or complementing the flavors of other ingredients.

The onion can be sautéed to a golden brown color and served to provide a sweet flavor to other foods.

Here is a website to see what it looks like:

http://www.carolina.com/biotech/onion.asp

Red onions are cultivars of the onion with purplish red skin and white flesh tinged with red. They are sometimes referred to as Spanish Onions.

These onions tend to be medium to large in size and have a mild to sweet flavor. They are often consumed raw, added for color to salads, and grilled or lightly cooked with other foods.

Red onions are available throughout the year. Red onions sometimes turn green when stir-fried.

Here is a website to see what it looks like:

http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/red-onions.html

A Vidalia onion is a sweet onion of certain varieties, grown in a production area defined by law in Georgia and by the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The varieties include the hybrid yellow granex, varieties of granex parentage, or other similar varieties recommended by the Vidalia Onion Committee and approved by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

The onions were first grown near Vidalia, Georgia, in the early 1930s. It is an unusually sweet variety of onion, due to the low amount of sulfur in the soil in which the onions are grown.

Georgia's state legislature passed the "Vidalia Onion Act of 1986" which authorized a trademark for "Vidalia Onions" and limits the production area to Georgia or any subset as defined by the state's Commissioner of Agriculture. The current definition includes:

The following thirteen counties: Emanuel, Candler, Treutlen, Bulloch, Wheeler, Montgomery, Evans, Tattnall, Toombs, Telfair, Jeff Davis, Appling, and Bacon.
Portions of the following seven counties: Jenkins, Screven, Laurens, Dodge, Pierce, Wayne, and Long.
The Vidalia onion was named Georgia's official state vegetable in 1990.

Here is a website to see what it looks like:

http://www.vidaliaonion.com/

Here is all kinds of information about onions:

http://www.browfarm.co.uk/onions_about.htm

Hope this helps you out. Good Luck.

Answer 2

Apparently- the color of the skin. They also taste differently and have different textures. Vidalia onions are very sweet-they are the sweetest and taste good in meat pies and meatloaf. White onions are bit less sweet, but still sweeter than yellow and red. They work best when sauteed, but I like white onions in salads. Red onions are crunchier, and used in salads, and their taste is somewhat more pungent (white onions can be very pungent too). A lot of people like using red onions in salads or sandwiches, but I hate the tast of red onions.

Answer 3

Yellow is probably the sharpest, white a bit less so... yellow and white are interchangeable in practically any recipe.

Purple is used more in it's raw state, when color and appearance is paramount: salads, vinaigrettes, salsas, garnishes

Vidalia (aka sweet onions, 1015's are another variety from Texas) are very sweet, and probably won't make you cry when cutting them. AWESOME in onion rings, or to put raw on burgers or salads.

Answer 4

the red i was mainly for salad
the yellow are for most of the cooking
the white for special dishes(like the with pepper)
the vidalia they hold very well for frying or baking

Answer 5

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/14/earlyshow/contributors/marthastewart/main509019.shtml?source=RSS&attr=_509019
This site has a good description of sweet onions. i love vidalia onions the best cooked but in salads I like red onions for their little touch of hotness.

Answer 6

its just taste like the brown onion is used for cooking.... white and red are more for salads and stuff like that

Answer 7

The flavor, the sweetness and the strength.
The red is the most strong one, the yellow is sweet and mild and the white is softer and lighter

Answer 8

White is the hottest.

Yellow is the 'common' one.

Red is mainly used fresh (salads for example).

Valalia is a 'sweet' one, cut it in half, add brown sugar to it and bake till soft - serve as a side dish.

Answer 9

vidalia(is that the spelling?) are big and not as strong.

Answer 10

they have different flavors