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Fresh White Onion

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1 Container (28 MT) (MOQ)

Business Type: Exporter, Supplier, Trader
Size: 40-60mm
Packaging Type: Mesh Bag
Packaging Size: 5-25kg

About Fresh White Onion

White onion is bought for two quite different purposes, and it is worth telling your supplier which one applies. Fresh-market buyers want firm, clean bulbs with even colour for direct consumption, common across Gulf and Southeast Asian markets. Processing buyers want high dry-matter content and low pungency for dehydration into flakes and powder, which is a specification question rather than an appearance one.

We supply white onion in 40–60 mm grades, cured before packing and shipped in ventilated mesh bags. As with red onion, ventilation matters more than it appears: onions respire in transit, and sealed packing causes moisture build-up and spoilage over a long sea leg.

Availability follows the main Indian onion cycle, with white varieties concentrated in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Tell us your destination port, size grade and whether the end use is fresh or processing, and we will quote against current origin prices.

If your end use is dehydration, the specification that matters is not appearance but dry matter content, which determines how much finished product a tonne of raw material yields. Low pungency is usually wanted alongside it. These are laboratory parameters rather than visual ones, so state your target figures and agree how they will be verified, because two lots that look identical on a packing line can differ meaningfully in what they return after drying.

For fresh-market buyers the judgement is different: firm bulbs, clean even colour, tight necks and minimal loose skin. White onion shows blemishes more readily than red, so tolerance on skin damage is worth agreeing explicitly rather than assuming a house standard. As with red onion, packing is ventilated mesh and the curing question applies equally, since a poorly cured white onion deteriorates on the same schedule.