Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visit to the salad bar used to leave you with two choices: iceberg or romaine. But now lunch shops and grocery stores have woken ...
A young, bright green lettuce seedling with delicate water droplets on its leaves, growing in a pot - TWNN/Shutterstock Are you an impatient gardener? Someone who just can't wait to harvest his crops?
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 ...
Lauren O’Connor, MS, RDN, is a health and lifestyle writer and five-time cookbook author based in Los Angeles. She is a registered dietitian with over 15 years of experience in the field, specializing ...
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The unspoken hierarchy of lettuce

Nobody announces it. Nobody prints it on a menu or hangs it in a produce aisle. And yet everyone who has ever ordered a salad, built a burger, or stared into the refrigerator drawer at 11 p.m.
A side, a main, a topping to a burger or sandwich: Lettuce can be pretty much anything you want it to be. But are these green leafy veggies actually healthy? Yes − adding a bit of lettuce not only ...
A visit to the salad bar used to leave you with two choices: iceberg or romaine. But now lunch shops and grocery stores have woken up to all the types of lettuce out there, and there are almost too ...
Are you an impatient gardener? Someone who just can't wait to harvest his crops? Then, lettuce (Lactuca sativa) might be your new favorite crop. Thanks to a really short growth cycle, lettuce matures ...