New cross-bred onions won’t make you cry

No more tears from slicing onions. Photo: dpa

It's an excuse as old as time: I’m not crying, I’m just chopping onions. But thanks to food science, people will have to start confronting their emotions instead of blaming the tear-inducing allium.

The Sunion was developed by Bayer scientists over three decades through cross-breeding and are not genetically modified, the Germany-based company explains on its website. The tear-free onions, which are grown only in the US, become sweeter each day, it adds.