You need to know this!!

[aidanjm]

It has practically zero nutritional content, the lowest of just about any vegetable. It contains but one-twentieth the fibre of broadbeans for example. Only trivial amounts of vitamins. Insignificant amounts of folate or carotenes compared with peppers, tomatoes, spinach, red cabbage or baked beans.

AND it is dirty - the way it is prepared often leads to food poisoning. For example a recent outbreak of food posoning in Scottland (from multi-drug resistant salmonella) was traced back to lettuce.

Go for the baby spinach leaves instead. Or munch on a tomato.

 

[sisq0kidd]

😕

 

[gsaldivar]

/target aidanjm
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[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
/target aidanjm
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you can't handle the truth?

innocent, harmless lettuce, everyone likes lettuce, who would have suspected it was so useless and dangerous? :|

 

[Sheepathon]

mmmmmmm v8

 

[daniel49]

since you have now become the lettuce king which varieties are the most nutritional and which are the least?

 

[Ikonomi]

Thanks for posting. I usually don't eat lettuce (especially iceberg lettuce) for these reasons, preferring spinach and other leafy greens in my salads. But I do eat it on sandwiches and that sort of thing.

What do you think of http://www.freshexpress.com/OpCo_Source/products/product2.asp?cat=bl? It has romaine, but it's mostly other stuff.

 

[brigden]

This would explain why I always find chucks of lettuce in my poo.

 

[Amused]

While I agree that Iceberg lettuce has little nutritional value, to hype an extremely isolated event of food poisoning in an attempt to brand it as "dangerous" is just irresponsible and ignorant.

Billions of people consume lettuce everyday without a problem. ALL produce has had outbreaks of food poisoning. It's not the produce itself, but the handling.

So stop the fear mongering, OK?

 

[jjones]

Of course it's useless, it's not made of meat.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: jjones
Of course it's useless, it's not made of meat.

:thumbsup:

 

[Red Dawn]

That's why I prefer Romaine and Spinach Salads over Salads made with Ice Berg Lettuce.

 

[tec699]

You have different types of lettuce. The type you're talking about is iceberg lettuce which sucks anyway. It's cheap so restaurants use it a bit too much. If you want real lettuce make sure it's very dark because this particular type of lettuce will have tons of vitamins/minerals and is actually tasty.


lettuce

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: Amused
While I agree that Iceberg lettuce has little nutritional value, to hype an extremely isolated event of food poisoning in an attempt to brand it as "dangerous" is just irresponsible and ignorant.

Billions of people consume lettuce everyday without a problem. ALL produce has had outbreaks of food poisoning. It's not the produce itself, but the handling.

So stop the fear mongering, OK?

Danger!

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: daniel49
since you have now become the lettuce king which varieties are the most nutritional and which are the least?

Beware!

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: jjones
Of course it's useless, it's not made of meat.

hahah...sounds like something LordMaul would say.

Either that or lettuce is what food eats. 😀

 

[79Blazer]

Originally posted by: brigden
This would explain why I always find chucks of lettuce in my poo.

Quit digging through your poo, sick-o. :|

 

[yobarman]

Originally posted by: 79Blazer

Originally posted by: brigden
This would explain why I always find chucks of lettuce in my poo.

Quit digging through your poo, sick-o. :|

BWHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: 79Blazer

Originally posted by: brigden
This would explain why I always find chucks of lettuce in my poo.

Quit digging through your poo, sick-o. :|

It's a metro thing... you wouldnt understand.

 

[imported_Phil]

I'll continue eating my father's garden-grown lettuce, then.

 

[rh71]

wow, just about the only vegetable I don't mind eating is lettuce... no wonder they say healthy foods are nasty... I thought I had a winner.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Romaine and that purple lettuce have nutritional value.

Actually I looked it up. Romaine is worthless too. http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s01wr.html

The Good
This food is low in Saturated Fat and Sodium, and very low in Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Protein, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus and Copper, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Thiamin, Folate, Iron, Potassium and Manganese.

The Bad
A large portion of the calories in this food come from sugars.

But one leaf has: 1 calorie, the 0g protein, 7% vitamin A per leaf, 2% vitamin C, 1% fiber. 😕

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
It has practically zero nutritional content, the lowest of just about any vegetable. It contains but one-twentieth the fibre of broadbeans for example. Only trivial amounts of vitamins. Insignificant amounts of folate or carotenes compared with peppers, tomatoes, spinach, red cabbage or baked beans.

AND it is dirty - the way it is prepared often leads to food poisoning. For example a recent outbreak of food posoning in Scottland (from multi-drug resistant salmonella) was traced back to lettuce.

Go for the baby spinach leaves instead. Or munch on a tomato.

Use Romaine, and wash it yourself, it's much healthier than iceberg lettuce. Hmm guess not. Oh well. Use Spinach leaves then...

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: Amused
While I agree that Iceberg lettuce has little nutritional value, to hype an extremely isolated event of food poisoning in an attempt to brand it as "dangerous" is just irresponsible and ignorant.

Billions of people consume lettuce everyday without a problem. ALL produce has had outbreaks of food poisoning. It's not the produce itself, but the handling.

So stop the fear mongering, OK?

Danger!

You desperately need to be more discerning with your sources if you honestly believe that alarmist pile of crap.