10 Popular Foods That Secretly Contain Onion or Garlic
That instant soup, your favourite chips, even some 'plain' masalas — you'd be shocked what hides inside packaged food labels.
When you're following a Jain diet or avoiding onion and garlic for any reason, reading food labels becomes a survival skill.
Here are 10 foods that commonly contain hidden onion or garlic:
Most instant soups use onion powder and garlic powder as base flavour enhancers.
Almost every Italian-style pasta sauce contains garlic.
Most commercial mayonnaises use garlic powder.
Flavoured variants almost always contain onion and garlic powder.
Even "Jain food" at restaurants may use base gravy made with onion and garlic.
Generic masalas nearly always contain dried onion and garlic.
These almost universally contain onion and garlic.
Most contain garlic or onion as a flavouring ingredient.
Frozen aloo parathas often have onion mixed into the stuffing.
Can legally include onion and garlic extracts.
What to look for on labels: - Onion, dried onion, onion powder, dehydrated onion - Garlic, dried garlic, garlic powder, garlic extractive - "Natural flavours" (verify separately) - Any mention of "allium"