gullök (vs. lök)

08:28 Aug 17, 2019 

You will have this problem again and again if you are translating all the ingredient listings on the Zocalo menu/website. Lök and specific kinds of lök appearing together in the same listing. Agree with Chris S that you had better get back to the client and seek clarification.

08:14 Aug 17, 2019 

You could well be right Michele but it seems oddly imprecise to me. To my mind, an onion is brown unless otherwise specified.

23:31 Aug 16, 2019 

Onion and yellow onion are not the same thing. Yellow onion is a specific variety, onion can be any (unspecified) variety - yellow, red, white, etc. It is not unusual to see ingredients listed more than once on a nutritional label. Yellow onion may be a major ingredient and then an unspecified onion a minor ingredient, or it may be an ingredient in another ingredient and that onion variety may be unspecified.

21:20 Aug 16, 2019 

You cannot call two different ingredients the same thing, and onion and yellow/brown onion are the same thing, so you have to go back to the client to my mind

17:14 Aug 16, 2019 

My feeling is that if you put 'yellow onion' for gullök and 'onion' for lök, you're covered and have given the correct translation. As it's a list of ingredients/nutrition, you don't really need to be more specific than the Swedish.