Tearless Onion, Onions That Doesn't Make You Cry When You Chop It
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Try this. The tearless onion - the onion that doesn't make you cry when you chop it. Using gene-silencing technology to dry up the enzyme that causes crying, scientists believed they have discovered the "tearless onion"
LinkThe team, led by Dr Colin Eady, from The New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research, say the groundbreaking onions are still in the developmental stage.
Dr Eady said: "What we've done is develop the tearless onion.
"We anticipate that the health and flavour profiles will actually be enhanced by what we've done.
"What we're hoping is that we'll essentially have a lot of the nice, sweet aromas associated with onions without that associated bitter, pungent factor."
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