Salads, garnishes and sandwich lines where colour is wanted raw
The pink flesh and mild sweetness make this bulb the choice for raw use on salads, sandwiches and garnish lines.
FRESH · SIZE-GRADED · MESH BAGS
Fresh Pink Onion for Export, 25-80 mm
Fresh pink onion from Gujarat is a light red: pale rose skin over near-white flesh, with red-onion character at roughly half the pungency and the most pronounced sweetness of the three varieties. It suits markets that want a coloured onion without the bite, and raw applications where colour is wanted and pungency is not.
KlarHarvest ships it cured, size-graded to your band and packed in mesh or jute bags, in ventilated or reefer containers from Pipavav - FCL, in scheduled runs whose window is confirmed at inquiry.
- Sourced from BRC-certified units
- NABL-accredited lab testing
- Low minimums · LCL welcome
- Lab report per lot
The range
Fresh Pink Onion Grade Bands, To Scale
Same onion, same line, same lot documentation - a different bulb size.
- Small25-40 mm
- Medium40-60 mm
- Medium-large50-70 mm
- Large60-80 mm
Grade bands are screened to order; about 5 % of bulbs fall outside the stated band.
The product
What Is Fresh Pink Onion?
What the product is, why the grade band matters, and what it means for the price per kilo.
Fresh pink onion is a light-red Allium cepa grown in Gujarat as a rabi crop: pale rose to light-red papery skin, near-white flesh with a faint pink edge to the rings, and a flavour that sits between white and red - about half the pungency of a red onion with a clear sweetness. Production is smaller than white or red and runs on a schedule rather than continuously.
Buyers choose fresh pink onion for salads, garnishes and sandwich lines where colour is wanted raw, for dressings and relishes that use the sweetness, and for Gulf and Southeast Asian wholesale and retail programmes that want a visibly different onion. It is sold by diameter in bands from 25-40 mm to 60-80 mm, one band per lot, and ships FCL only.
Overview
Fresh Pink Onion: Product Overview
KlarHarvest fresh pink onion comes from growers in Gujarat, field-cured after the rabi harvest and shipped in scheduled runs that follow the crop. Bulbs are topped, cleaned, screened to your grade band and packed in 5-25 kg mesh bags, plain or with your label, and every bag is counted and weighed before the container is sealed. Reefer transport is recommended more often than for red, because the thinner skin cures less hard.
Pink onion is a scheduled product, and we sell it that way: the offer names the run it comes from, the band that run screens to and the months it can ship, with photographs of the crop. Reefer is recommended more often than for red because the thinner skin cures less hard. FOB, CFR or CIF, grade, packing and freight in one quotation, inside one business day - and dried in the same five cuts on request, with minimum quantities.
In numbers
Fresh Pink Onion at a Glance
3
Harvests a year
Rabi, kharif, late kharif
4
Grade bands
25-40 mm to 60-80 mm
~5%
Band tolerance
Bulbs outside the stated band
12-14t
Per 20 ft container
FCL only, ventilated
Growing and packing
How Fresh Pink Onion Is Grown, Cured and Packed
Eight steps from the field to a strapped pallet in a ventilated container. Where a defect can enter the product, the step says so.
Growing on a schedule
Pink onion is a rabi crop of Gujarat sown in November-December and lifted February to April, on a smaller acreage than white or red and on runs agreed with the growers in advance.
Field curing
Windrowed under their own tops until necks tighten. The pink skin is thinner than red and sets less hard, which is why the curing is watched more closely and reefer transport is advised more often.
Shed storage
Cured bulbs held in ventilated sheds for the run's shipping window - weeks rather than the months a white rabi crop can wait.
Topping and cleaning
Tops and roots trimmed, loose skin and soil brushed off, leaving the rose outer skin intact.
Screening
A screening deck sorts bulbs into 25-40, 40-60, 50-70 and 60-80 mm; sprouted, split, double and damaged bulbs are picked off by hand.
Bagging
Mesh bags filled to net weight, sewn or clipped and labelled with grade, lot and your mark.
Loading
Palletised and strapped or stowed loose, counted, weighed and filmed into a reefer or ventilated container at our premises.
Release
Phytosanitary inspection, export documents, customs seal and the seal number in your order record before the truck leaves for Pipavav.
Data sheet
Fresh Pink Onion Specification
One band per lot, screened to order, with the tolerance counted per bag - the export standard for this onion.
The specification for KlarHarvest fresh pink onion below is the standard export band. It is written into every quotation and confirmed on the packing list, bag by bag, before the container is sealed.
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Raw material | Fresh pink / light red onion (Allium cepa L.), Gujarat, India |
| Skin / flesh | Pale rose to light red papery skin; near-white flesh, faint pink edge |
| Grades | 25-40 · 40-60 · 50-70 · 60-80 mm - one band per lot |
| Tolerance | approx. 5 % of bulbs outside the stated band |
| Condition | Field-cured, necks and roots trimmed, single-centre, dry skin, no sprouting |
| Packing | 5 / 10 / 20 / 25 kg mesh (net) bags; jute on request · private label |
| Container (est.) | ~12-14 t / 20 ft · ~26-28 t / 40 ft, ventilated |
| Transit | Ventilated dry container; reefer 0-2 °C recommended more often than for red |
| Season | Follows the Gujarat rabi window; scheduled runs, narrower than white or red |
| Shipping terms | FCL only - FOB, CFR or CIF |
| HS code | 0703 10 |
Grade bands, packing and the seasonal window are confirmed in every quotation; a narrower band is quoted against the crop in hand.
Grade bands
Fresh Pink Onion Grade Bands and Tolerances
Bulb diameter as a screened band and the tolerances that go with it - what a fresh onion grade actually promises.
Fresh pink onion is screened into diameter bands like red, but the crop is smaller and runs are scheduled, so a narrow band in a large quantity may not exist in a given season. About 5 % of bulbs outside the band is the normal allowance; we say what is screenable before it goes into a contract.
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Small
pickling grade
mm25-40
Firm, single-centre bulbs, dry papery skin
Pickling, whole-onion canning
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Medium
export grade
mm40-60
The volume grade: uniform bulbs, dry neck, clean skin
Foodservice, wholesale, retail nets
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Medium-large
mm50-70
Fuller bulbs, uniform skin colour
Foodservice, cut-and-pack, retail
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Large
mm60-80
Big single bulbs, firm, well cured
Retail loose display, processors buying by the bulb
Defect limits · per 100 g on the sorted product
- ≤ 5 %Bulbs outside the stated band, by count
- ≤ 1 %Sprouted or rooted bulbs
- ≤ 2 %Mechanical damage or bruising
- ≤ 3 %Doubles and misshapen bulbs
A tighter band or tolerance for fresh pink onion is quoted against the run in hand and confirmed on the packing list; ask early in the season, when the run is being planned.
Applications
Fresh Pink Onion Applications and Industries Served
The uses this variety is specified for most often. Tell us yours and we will say whether it is the right one.
Dressings and relishes that use the sweetness
Milder than red and sweeter than white, pink onion goes into fresh relishes, salsas and dressings without a harsh bite.
Gulf and Southeast Asian wholesale
Wholesale markets that know the pink onion from the Indian trade take it in mesh bags on the same two-week sailing.
Retail programmes wanting visible differentiation
A pink-skinned onion stands out in a net or on a display beside the white and red staples.
Cut-and-pack and salad packs
Sliced and diced packs use the pink bulb for a softer colour than red in a mixed salad pack.
Pickling and quick-pickle lines
Sliced and quick-pickled, pink onion keeps a light rose colour and its sweetness in the jar.
Packaging & export
Packaging and Export Logistics for Fresh Pink Onion
Fresh pink onion is the most delicate of the three varieties in transit - thinner skin, softer cure - so temperature and sailing length come first in the packing instruction. This is how a run ships.
25kg
Per bag
Laminated kraft, double PE liner
32
Bags per Europallet
800 kg net, 4 x 8 pattern
10
Pallets per 20 ft
9-10 t net, single height
21-23t
Per 40 ft high cube
About 22 pallets
How a lot ships
From the Packhouse to Your Port
Bag, pallet, container, protection, route and documents - the things a packing instruction has to say.
- Bag 5, 10, 20 or 25 kg mesh bags; jute on request; plain or printed with your label.
- Pallet 40 x 25 kg bags on a pallet, 1,000 kg net, strapped and corner-boarded; loose stowage on request.
- Container About 12-14 t net in a 20 ft container, 26-28 t in a 40 ft; reefer at 0-2 °C is recommended on most sailings, because the pink skin cures less hard than a red onion's.
- Ventilation and temperature Ventilated containers are workable on the two-week Gulf sailing in the cool months; everything longer or warmer goes reefer with fresh-air exchange.
- Inspection Bags counted and weighed, the run photographed, a sample cut for the phytosanitary inspector before sealing.
- Route and transit Pipavav; about two weeks to the Gulf, two to three to Southeast Asia, four to five to Europe.
- Documents Invoice, packing list with counts and weights, certificate of origin, phytosanitary certificate from India's NPPO, fumigation certificate where required, bill of lading with container and seal numbers - drafts before sailing.
Export markets
Fresh Pink Onion Export Markets
The same lot, a different document set. Where our containers go and what each destination asks for.
Gulf states
The main buyer of pink onion, for wholesale and retail programmes that want a coloured onion without the bite; two weeks from Pipavav, Arabic labelling on request. Jebel Ali, Dammam, Sohar.
Exporting to the GulfSoutheast Asia
Malaysia and Singapore on the same corridor, reefer on the longer sailings.
Exporting to Southeast AsiaGermany and the EU
Customs code 0703 10, TRACES entry and a phytosanitary certificate to EU requirements; reefer for the four-to-five-week sailing. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp.
Exporting to GermanyUnited Kingdom
UK Global Tariff line 0703 10, IPAFFS pre-notification and the phytosanitary certificate; Felixstowe and Southampton.
Exporting to the UKUnited States and Canada
Subject to the season's USDA APHIS and CFIA conditions for Indian onion, confirmed before you commit.
Exporting to the USA and CanadaOther markets
Tell us the destination and the quotation confirms its plant-health requirements, the document set and the lead time for fresh pink onion.
Ask about your marketQuality
Quality and Certifications for Fresh Pink Onion
What is certified, what is tested, and what is still in process - stated as it is today.
Curing before anything else
Pink onion is cured until necks are tight, and we say plainly that its skin sets less hard than red - which is why the transport recommendation is part of every offer.
Phytosanitary inspection per shipment
Certified by India's National Plant Protection Organisation against the importing country's requirements before sealing.
Residue testing on request
Pesticide residue analysis per EU Regulation 396/2005 by an NABL-accredited laboratory where the market or the customer requires it.
Traceability
Lot code on every bag - growing area, run, packhouse - with the loading photographs and video in the same record.
Inspection at loading
Counted, weighed, photographed, sample cut, seal number recorded - at our premises, before the truck leaves.
Registrations
APEDA registration and FSSAI licence in process; numbers published here the day they are issued.
Why KlarHarvest
Why Buy Fresh Pink Onion from KlarHarvest
Six things you can check before the first order, not after.
A straight answer on the crop
What the run screens to and how much of it exists - said before the contract, because a narrow band in a large quantity may not be there in a given season.
A complete quote in one business day
Grade, price, freight, transport recommendation and the run window in one document.
Price validity that says what it means
Short validity, and a contract that states what happens if an Indian export measure lands between confirmation and loading.
Loading video and tracking
Bags counted into the container on video, the seal number, the box followed to your port.
One contact for both forms
Pink onion dried on request in the same five cuts as red, from the same exporter.
A client portal per order
Crop photographs, loading video, status and documents behind one link.
Documentation
How to Buy Fresh Pink Onion
Production runs are scheduled rather than continuous, so a narrow grade band in a large quantity may simply not exist in a given season. Tell us the volume and the months you need and we book against a run - and we will tell you what is actually screenable before it goes into a contract. Pink onion is also available dehydrated in all five cut sizes, on request, with minimum quantities. Dehydrated red onions
FAQ
Fresh Pink Onion - Frequently Asked Questions
What buyers ask about this variety before the first order. Anything not covered here, send us the question - you have an answer within one business day.
How is pink onion different from red onion?
Lighter skin, near-white flesh and about half the pungency, with more sweetness. It is chosen for colour without bite - raw applications above all.
When is fresh pink onion available?
It follows the Gujarat rabi window, harvested February to April, in scheduled runs that are narrower than white or red. Tell us the months you need and we book against a run.
Can I order a large quantity in one narrow grade band?
Sometimes not: the crop is smaller, and a narrow band screened out of it leaves too much behind. We say what is screenable before it goes into a contract.
Do you ship fresh pink onion LCL?
No. A living cargo needs its own ventilation setting, so fresh onion ships FCL only - about 12-14 t in a 20 ft container.
Ventilated or reefer container?
Reefer at 0-2 °C with fresh-air exchange is recommended on most sailings, because the thinner pink skin cures less hard than red. Ventilated containers on the two-week sailings to the Gulf are workable in the cool months.
Is fresh pink onion available dehydrated?
Yes, on request, in all five cuts from flakes to powder, with minimum quantities - dried at the same BRC-certified plants as the red range.
Can I get my own label on the bags?
Yes. Printed mesh bags or tags with your mark; artwork agreed at order confirmation.
Same category
Other Fresh Onion Varieties We Export
Same growing belt, same curing and grading standard - a different variety.
FRESH · SIZE-GRADED · MESH BAGS
Fresh White Onion
Fresh white onions for markets preferring mild flavour and white skin. Size-graded and containerised to order, seasonal availability confirmed at inquiry.
View details for fresh white onion
FRESH · SIZE-GRADED · MESH BAGS
Fresh Red Onion
Export-grade red onions with deep red-purple skins from Gujarat and Maharashtra growing regions. Size-graded, cured, packed in mesh bags and containerised for sea freight.
View details for fresh red onionDehydrated, on request
Fresh Pink Onion, Dehydrated: The Red Onion Range
Pink onion is dried on request in the same five cuts as red; these are the nearest standard products, with the same plants and lot documentation.
FLAKES · 8-20 MM
Red Onion Flakes (Kibbled)
Pink-red dried pieces with a sharper flavour profile - preferred where colour should be visible in the final dish.
View details for red onion flakes (kibbled)
CHOPPED · 3-5 MM
Red Onion Chopped
Red onion pieces for ethnic cuisine ranges, chutneys, curry bases and dry mixes.
View details for red onion chopped
MINCED · 1-3 MM
Red Onion Minced
Fine cut combining red onion colour with quick rehydration for pastes and sauces.
View details for red onion minced
GRANULES · 0.5-1 MM
Red Onion Granules
Free-flowing granules for blends where red onion character is specified.
View details for red onion granules
POWDER · 100 MESH
Red Onion Powder
Fine red onion powder for seasonings, snack coatings and ready-mix formulations.
View details for red onion powder
CUSTOM · 8-20 MM TO 100 MESH
Need a custom mesh or cut?
We run every cut from 8-20 mm flakes down to 100 mesh powder, and match granulation to your specification at order stage.
Ask usStart here
Get a Dehydrated Onion Quote Within One Business Day
Product, cut size, quantity, destination port - that's all we need to start. You'll receive a written quotation with full specifications from a dehydrated onion exporter, not a one-line price.
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