What is Lettuce Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits for Adult and Children?

Lettuce in the scientific name “Lactuca sativa” and Indian or Bengali name lettuce pata is a yearly small plant of the daisy relatives Asteraceae group. In the China, it is called “Woju yey (莴苣叶)” or asparagus lettuce. Lettuce is a Herbal Medicinal Plant.

Lettuce Facts

It’s called the Arabian as an “Al Khassu - الخس”. It has more health benefits in the medical science. It is being named as a “lactuca” by anyone of Greek or Romanian.

Growing/Planting Lettuce

This herbal plant most commonly produced as a leaf vegetable, but sometimes it grown from its stalk and seeds. For the first time in the world Lettuce was cultivated by an ancient Egyptian, and then it extends to the Greeks, Romans and all over the world. Now a day, by the behind of era 1900s the utilization of lettuce had extended throughout the whole world. It is now also cultivating available in the South Asia, especially China, Korea, Japan, India, and Bangladesh.

How Many Types of Lettuce?

Basically, Lettuce has various types. There are five types or classifications of lettuce such as Butterhead lettuce, Crisphead lettuce, Looseleaf lettuce, Romaine lettuce, and Celtuce lettuce. Someone classified it by these names - green leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, butterhead lettuce and iceberg lettuce. All kinds of lettuce have so more health benefits and nutrition facts.

How Many Colors of Lettuce?

Although there are five types of lettuce, they have not five deference colors. They have only two colors such as green colored lettuce and red colored lettuce. Red lettuce is very rare. It is not available in our locality. But green lettuce is available in our locality around the whole world. These four most common lettuce such as green leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, butterhead lettuce and iceberg lettuce are in the green color.

How to Use Lettuce?

Green Leaf and Red Leaf Lettuce is mainly eaten in salads. Otherwise, it is also eaten in various types of food, such as sandwiches, soups, and wraps. It may also be eaten as a cooked leaf, grilled leaf, sauteed and braized leaf in the various types of recipes. But the raw leaf is the most beneficial for health. The Chinese have eaten Woju yey (莴苣叶) both raw leaf and cooked leaf.

Health Nutrition of Lettuce

Lettuce is a high-quality medicinal source. There are available vitamin-A, vitamin-K, potassium, as well as some dietary fiber, carbohydrates, protein, and a small amount of fat. Lettuce leaf also provides some vitamin-C, iron, copper, calcium and greatly vitamins, minerals and nutrients. In spite of its helpful possessions, the polluted lettuce leaf is frequently an effective good source of bacterial, viral and parasitic prevalence in the human being. Lettuce leaf naturally exploits and condenses lithium gas.

All nutrition and health benefits of lettuce leaf are in the several posts under the title “Green Leaf Lettuce Nutrition and Health Benefits”. You can read another article about the “Red Leaf Lettuce Nutrition and Health Benefits”.

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