Why Are Red Onions Considered Red?

Why Are Red Onions Considered Red?

Among the greater modern culinary mysteries: why are certain fruits and vegetables (red onions, red grapes, and red cabbages among them) called red when, in fact, they're clearly purple? Read to learn why.

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