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Small white onions on a food label: allergens, diets and other names
Small white onions are a kind of onion. They are not one of the allergens that labels must declare. They are vegan. Open Food Facts finds them in 520 products, most often in salty and fatty foods.
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Do small white onions contain an allergen?
Small white onions are not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.
Are small white onions vegan?
Yes. Small white onions are vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in them.
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What other names do small white onions have on a label?
In English small white onions can also read “silverskin onions”. On European labels they are “oignons blancs” in French, “Silberzwiebeln” in German and “Cebollitas” in Spanish. The other 5 languages are listed below.
- French
- oignons blancs, petits oignons blancs
- German
- Silberzwiebeln
- Spanish
- Cebollitas
- Italian
- cipolline
- Dutch
- zilveruitjes, zilverui
- Swedish
- Syltlök
- Finnish
- Hillosipuli
- Croatian
- mali bijeli luk
Which foods contain small white onions?
Open Food Facts lists small white onions in the ingredients of 520 products, most often salty and fatty foods, ready meals and vegetables. Most of them are sold in France, Spain and Germany.
Products with it, by country of sale: France 203 · Spain 93 · Germany 65 · Netherlands 53.
Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where small white onions turn up, not how much of the market they are.
What kind of ingredient are small white onions?
Small white onions are a kind of onion.
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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.
- Open Food Facts: Small white onions
- Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
- Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
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