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Fast-food chains hold the onions after McDonald’s E. coli outbreak

McDonald's pulls Quarter Pounder from one-fifth of its US restaurants

U.S. fast-food chains were pulling fresh onions out of their menu items on Thursday after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald's restaurants that has sickened 49 people and killed one.

Onions come in all sizes, shapes and colours and with different flavour profiles. 
They’re all tasty and are underrated for their nutritional value.

Enjoy an onion

They’re tasty with flavours that run from spicy to sweet and surprisingly nutritious

Raw, sautéed, grilled, caramelized, fried or boiled, onions can be used in many different ways in an endless variety of dishes. In fact, onions are the most commonly used vegetable across the globe. We enjoy them for the crisp, spicy bite they provide when raw and the sweet, savoury depth they add when cooked. And


chopped onion

Bake onion rings for a healthy taste

Onions provide flavour, vitamins and minerals without adding a lot of calories

I always will remember the “year of the onions” from my childhood. I helped plant rows and rows of onion sets. I think we must have got a good deal on them. Usually our onions did not grow to be monster sized, but when harvest time arrived this particular year, we filled the back of

Think Red In The Spring

Most gardeners grow a few onions, whether they are multipliers to use in summer salads, sweet Spanish onions, the huge round slices of which grace many a burger in the summertime, or cooking onions grown from sets and stored for winter use. Fewer gardeners, however, seem to grow red onions, which I think is a


Onions Offer More Than Flavour

No onions on my sandwich, please, my eight-year-old daughter said. I was chopping onions and other vegetables as I assembled panini sandwiches to cook on our electric sandwich grill. How about just a little onion for flavour? I asked. Remember the customer is always right, and this customer doesn t like onions! she exclaimed. My