Spring onion

Allium cepa · Vegetables

Spring onions, or scallions, are young onions eaten whole - white bulb and green tops - for a fresh, mild allium bite. They provide vitamin K, folate and the flavonols quercetin and kaempferol, plant compounds studied in laboratory research for their antioxidant activity. Slice them raw over salads, soups and grain bowls, or add them in the last minute of a stir-fry so the green tops keep their colour and flavonols.

Polyols

SorbitolNot a source — upper-bound estimate

Source: Upper-bound estimate (Ciqual 2025)

What this means

This is spring onion's own sorbitol content, not a recipe amount. Sorbitol is a polyol — a type of sugar alcohol — calculated from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.20 g threshold (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sugars

Per 100 g

Total fructose1.4 g

Excess fructose0.2 g

Source: Measured value (BLS 4.0)

What this means

These are spring onion's own fructose figures, not a recipe amount. Total fructose is how much fructose the food contains. Excess fructose is fructose minus glucose, counted only when positive, since glucose helps the body absorb fructose — it is the figure behind the "Low fructose" filter and the recipe figures. When measured, both come from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.40 g threshold of excess fructose (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sources

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