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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sarah Marsh Consumer affairs correspondent

Sour times: pickled onions enjoy revival as Britons think outside the jar

Pickled vegetables and fruits in jars
Pickled and fermented foods are enjoying a surge in popularity, with their role in gut health particularly appealing. Photograph: MehmetO/Alamy

The humble pickled onion, long associated with classic pub culture, the ploughman’s lunch and cold festive buffets, is enjoying a revival as Britain’s appetite for pickles grows.

About 8.5m UK households bought pickled onions over the past year, according to the consumer data firm Worldpanel by Numerator, with particularly strong momentum in recent months.

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