Unlike the VAST majority of the foods we informally consider vegetables, onions are not added to dishes and recipes for bulk, energy, or health benefits, but rather for taste and depth of flavor. You would never cut up an onion and give it to your kids as a snack. Onions don’t belong in a vegetable tray. There’s not a single dip out there that would allow you to enjoy dipping a raw onion in it and eating it. You would never cook an onion as serve it as a side dish (I will admit that deep frying them is another story). Garlic, chives, and shallots are all informally referred to as herbs. Why can’t onions join them?? Onions definitely have herb energy, and NOT vegetable energy. Together we can declassify onions as vegetables and reclassify onions as herbs, a food group which they have much more in common with!