Lettuce is a versatile food, but most associate it with salads or a health-conscious substitute for bread. Americans ate nearly 26 pounds of lettuce in 2015, according to the Agricultural Marketing ...
If you're looking to broaden your lettuce horizons, we've highlighted different types of leafy greens and all the delicious things you can do with them. Leafy greens can count as part of the five ...
When you think of lettuce, maybe you picture a bland iceberg wedge on the side of a diner plate, but there’s a world of leafy greens out there, romaine, butterhead, red leaf, green leaf, and yes, even ...
Few foods have the combined taste and nutritional appeal of a good salad. Whether it's cherry tomatoes, crispy bacon, and hard-boiled eggs atop a cobb salad; croutons, parmesan cheese and that ...
The work 'represents a very significant advance for improving nutrition through biofortification of vegetables such as lettuce, chard or spinach.' Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with ...
Most of us don’t eat as much fruit and veggies as we know we should, but that goal might now be a bit more achievable. Scientists in Spain have engineered a new “Golden Lettuce” with 30 times more ...
The work demonstrates that by using biotechnological techniques and treatments with high light intensity, the levels of beta-carotene in leaves can be multiplied up to 30 times by creating new places ...
A research group from the Research Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP), a joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de ...
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Sunflower seeds are copper and selenium-dense, as well as rich in vitamin E, vitamin B 9, and B 5, which are all vital for ...
The work 'represents a very significant advance for improving nutrition through biofortification of vegetables such as lettuce, chard or spinach.' Move over, watercress. There's a new, ridiculously ...