No goggles required: ‘Tearless’ onions go on sale in UK supermarkets

Waitrose stocks Sunions, developed by decades of cross-breeding less pungent strains of onion

Chopping onions is a recurring kitchen nightmare that often reduces home cooks to tears, but red eyes could be a thing of the past as tearless" onions go on sale in the UK for the first time.

Next week Waitrose will start selling Sunions in its stores, a brown, tearless and sweet" onion variety that is being billed as a gamechanger" for red-eyed chefs. The onions, which are being marketed using the strapline not a single tear", have taken more than 30 years to perfect.