Seasons/Availability
Yellow onions are available year round.
Current Facts
Yellow onions, botanically classified as Allium cepa, are one of the most popular storage varieties and are members of the Amaryllidaceae family. The term ‘Yellow onion’ is a broad label to encompass multiple known seed varieties of Yellow onions. Yellow onions account for over eighty percent of the United States onion crop and are the most widely grown onion varietal in northern Europe. In the United States, Yellow onions are classified for market based on diameter size, ranging from a creamer classification at less than two centimeters in diameter to super colossal at ten centimeters in diameter.
