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Welsh onion

Allium fistulosumAlso called allium fistulosum, bunching onion, green onion and spring onion

Welsh onion is a kind of scallion used as a vegetable. Cooks use its leaves raw, as a garnish, or for infusing, pickling, seasoning, and wrapping; they pair it with meat, thyme, garlic, or allspice.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Vegetables
Part used
Leaf
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Cooked most in
Asia, Europe, Africa
Top country
Japan
Welsh onion, whole

Photo: Miyuki Meinaka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use Welsh onion

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Garnish
  • Infuse
  • Pickle
  • Raw
  • Season
  • Wrap

Goes well with

If you don’t have Welsh onion

  • leek · Works in a pinch, for raw

    Suggested for salads.

Nutrition

What 100 g of Welsh onion holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 22%Fat 5%Carbohydrate 74%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of Welsh onion, raw
Energy34 kcal · 142 kJ
Protein1.9 g
Fat0.4 g
of which saturated0.07 g
Carbohydrate6.5 g
of which sugars2.2 g
Fibre2.4 g
Sodium17 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of Welsh onion, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium212 mg
Calcium18 mg
Iron1.2 mg
Magnesium23 mg
Zinc0.52 mg
Vitamin C27 mg
Folate16 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 170007), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where Welsh onion is cooked

7 dishes in the catalogue use Welsh onion. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list Welsh onion among their ingredients.

Origins

First cultivated
in Asia

On the table

Dishes made with Welsh onion

6 of the 7 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Pan-bagnat

    France

  • Thiebou Yapp

    Senegal

  • Bauernfrühstück

    Germany

  • Takoyaki

    Japan

  • Esqueixada

    Spain

  • Negimaki

    Japan, United States

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include Welsh onion.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: Welsh onion in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

A kind of
scallion

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What Welsh onion is called

Names in 74 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Cebolla china · Allium fistulosum f viviparum · Negi · Allium fistulosum var viviparum

  • French

    ciboule · Allium fistulosum · Negi · cive

  • Italian

    cipolla d'inverno · Allium fistulosum · cipolletta · cippolletta

  • Portuguese

    Allium fistulosum

  • German

    Winterzwiebel · Schnattra · Frühlingszwiebel · Schlotten

  • Dutch

    grof bieslook · Grove bieslook · Negi

  • Turkish

    Kış soğanı

  • Russian

    Лук-батун · Батун-лук · Батун · Allium fistulosum

  • Polish

    czosnek dęty · Allium fistulosum · cebula siedmiolatka

  • Arabic

    ثوم قصبي · سبول

  • Persian

    تره‌فرنگی · تره فرنگی · ترهٔ فرنگی · نگی

  • Hebrew

    בצל ולשי

Show all 74 languages

  • Afrikaans

    Walliese ui

  • Albanian

    Allium fistulosum

  • ami

    Kenaw

  • Asturian

    Cebolleta

  • Basque

    Tipuleta

  • Belarusian

    Цыбуля-батун

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    цыбуля-батун

  • Breton

    Sivolez

  • Bulgarian

    Allium fistulosum

  • Cantonese

    蔥

  • Catalan

    ceba d'hivern · cebollí gal·lès · Allium fistulosum · porratell

  • cdo

    Chĕ̤ng

  • Cebuano

    Allium fistulosum

  • Chinese

    葱 · 大蔥 · 青蔥 · 蔥白

  • Corsican

    Allium fistulosum

  • Croatian

    Zimski luk

  • Czech

    cibule zimní · ošlejch · Allium fistulosum

  • Egyptian Arabic

    بصل ويلزى

  • Esperanto

    tuba aliumo · tubocepo · Vintra cepo

  • Estonian

    talisibul

  • Finnish

    pillisipuli · Allium fistulosum · Talvisipuli

  • Gan Chinese (Simplified)

    葱

  • Georgian

    ჭლაკვი

  • Hakka Chinese

    Chhûng-é

  • Hindi

    वेल्श प्याज़

  • Icelandic

    Pípulaukur

  • Ido

    Cibolo

  • Indonesian

    Bawang daun

  • Irish

    Allium fistulosum

  • Japanese

    ネギ · 葉ネギ · 長ネギ · シボル

  • Javanese

    Bawang godhong

  • Kazakh

    Батун

  • Korean

    파 · 실파 · 대파 · 굵은파

  • Latin

    Allium fistulosum

  • Ligurian

    Allium fistulosum

  • Lingala

    Ndɛmbi

  • Literary Chinese

    蔥

  • Luxembourgish

    Fréijoersënn · Allium fistulosum · Fréijoerszwiwwel

  • Madurese

    Bhâbâng ḍâun · Bâng ḍâun

  • Malay

    Allium fistulosum

  • Manchu

    ᡝᠯᡠ

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Chhang-á

  • Mingrelian

    სორხი

  • Northern Frisian

    Lookskalot

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    pipeløk

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    pipelauk · Allium fistulosum

  • Occitan

    Cebola

  • Romanian

    ceapă de tuns

  • Serbian

    аљма · Allium fistulosum · Зимски лук

  • Simplified Chinese

    葱

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    葱

  • Slovenian

    zimska čebula · Allium fistulosum · ozimni luk

  • Sundanese

    Bawang daun

  • Swedish

    Piplök · Allium fistulosum

  • Telugu

    ఉల్లి కాడలు

  • Thai

    หอมจีน

  • Tibetan

    ཙོང་།

  • Toki Pona

    kili Alijun Pitulosun

  • Traditional Chinese

    蔥

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    蔥 · 長喙韭

  • Ukrainian

    Батун · Allium fistulosum · Цибуля батун

  • Upper Sorbian

    Pózdnja cybla

  • Uzbek

    Batun piyozi

  • Vietnamese

    Hành · Hành ta · Hành lá · Allium fistulosum

  • Waray

    Allium fistulosum

  • Welsh

    Nionyn Cymreig

  • Zhuang

    coeng

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q27938

Photos

Photo: Miyuki Meinaka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons