Vegetable prices are getting scarier by the day 🤕🤕 With the amount of crops that are destroyed - the loss is irreparable! Let's really hope for the best.  #grimsituation #damagedcrops #onions #OnionPrice
OnionPrice has hit the roof ! So here is a thread about this the popular TypesOfOnion cultivated for 5000 years or more. Since Onion grew wild in various regions, they were probably consumed for 1000s of years and domesticated simultaneously all over the world. A prehistoric

diet, there is no conclusive opinion about the exact location and time of their birth. Many archaeologists, botanists, and food historians believe onions originated in central Asia.
They grew in China as early as 5000 years ago and they are referenced in some of the oldest Vedic

writings from India. 
In India as early as the sixth century B.C., the famous medical treatise Charaka – Sanhita celebrates the onion as medicine – a diuretic, good for digestion, the heart, the eyes, and the joints.
Onion and Garlic both belong to the allium family. 
These are some of the popular onions that we see in India. 
In #Assam the wild onion descendant that we call the অসমীয়া পিঁয়াজ is called #Shallot in English. Its more acrid, pungent and flavourful and grows well in sandy river side soil.

1. Spanish Onion
2. Shallots : Assamese Onion/ অসমীয়া পিঁয়াজ 
3. White Onions
4. Pearl Onions or Cocktail Onions as these are usually pickled whole to be eaten as an hors d'oeuvre. 
5. Red Onions : Most common Indian onion type. 
6. Sweet Onions : Looks like white onions, but hardly pungent, sweet and juicy. Great as caramelised topping on soups. 
7. Ramps : The most leafy onion, the flat broad leaves are more pungent and garlicky than an onion. 
8. Scallions : In Indian we mistakenly and commonly call it “Spring Onions” . Mandatory part of Indo Chinese cooking and omelettes :) 
9. Cipolline / Cipollini : Only seen this in fancy supermarkets, but this flat shaped onion is great roasted, braised or sauteed in butter and is the “in thing” on fancy dinner tables.