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Myths about green salad

The Austrians also call it chef's salad. It belongs to the group of garden salads. The lettuce is said to come from wild lettuce. A plant found in Southern Europe and the Near East.

In Egypt, Greece and with the Romans the vegetable is said to have been popular. In the 8th century it experienced its renaissance in Central Europe under Charlemagne. At the court of Louis XIV, lettuce was often eaten as a side dish. Therefore it was not only grown outdoors, but also under shelter.

In Northern Europe and North America lettuce was cultivated a lot. Binding lettuce and varieties of the Latin group were preferably cultivated in Mediterranean countries. Friedrich Alefeld described many lettuce varieties in 1866, 44 lettuce varieties were included. For 1995 Körber-Grohne still assumes 30 varieties available in Germany. In Germany, between 70,000 and 75,000 tons are to be harvested per year.

Mom always served green leaf salad for lunch in the warm season. She told us that salad was healthy. Many people still believe that today. In 2010, Germans consumed 218,000 tons of salad. That is 2.7 kg per capita! Nutritionists have analysed the vegetables. Let's look at their results.

Lettuce (head lettuce) is healthy because it has a lot of vitamin C

Wrong! A hundred grams of lettuce contains about 10 mg of vitamin C. The leaves are 95 percent water.

Lettuce is a good source of minerals

Wrong! These vegetables have as many minerals as a paper tissue. The substances it contains such as vitamins and trace elements are not worth mentioning.

Lettuce is good for slimming

Wrong! Anyone who puts in a "salad day" a week to lose weight really has to fight. The salad is usually refined with other foods such as oil, sugar, etc. Most calories usually have the ingredients. The leafy vegetables are immediately broken down in the stomach by the gastric acid. The feeling of satiety is therefore short-lived. Then the feeling of hunger comes back. Salad fans would then have to eat more than one kilogram of the vegetables per day to keep them from starving.

Leaf salad should be eaten immediately after harvest

Right! Otherwise, he'll lose some of those little vitamins. It should not be washed too abundantly, otherwise it loses additional water-soluble vitamins, which are scarce anyway.