Hints & Tips: Prefer dark green lettuces with no black spots on the leaves. They are more nutritious. Cleaning a lettuce should be thorough because the leaves hold too much soil. If the outer leaves of a lettuce are not very fresh, waste them and keep the fresh ones. Separate the leaves from the root and wash each one separately using plenty of water. Lettuce can be preserved in the refrigerator for 2-4 days if it is well folded with a towel or kept inside a plastic bag. If cut and not consumed quickly all its nutritional value will be lost. Lettuce is also considered a negative calorie food.
Greeks mostly eat it raw in salads. It is also boiled like in fricassee of lamb and in pork with lettuce. In some regions of Greece is also used to fold minced meat with rice like in the stuffed lettuce leaves with rice and meat recipe.
Lettuce is an excellent source of sulfur, chlorine, B complex. Lettuces with dark green leaves are high in chlorophyll.
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