"One cup of broccoli has your daily intake of vitamin c," she ace the nutritionally vacuous iceberg lettuce with baby spinach in tacos or mix sweet potatoes in your regular mashed potatoes.
Cucumber and iceberg lettuce contain almost no nutrients and some rabbits can get digestive problems.
Now that spinach and iceberg lettuce have been approved, it is focusing on persuading the F.D.A. to permit irradiation of hot dogs and deli meats.
Just iceberg lettuce, half a cup of garbanzos and a lemon wedge.
In a study at Oregon State University, consumers were shown three samples of iceberg lettuce, two of them with varying degrees of light brown on the edges and at the base.
And starting tomorrow, the government will allow food producers to start zapping fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and other dangerous germs.
Some light green iceberg lettuce.
ScienceDaily (May 25, 2009) - Salad dressing aside, a pile of spinach has more nutritional value than a wedge of iceberg lettuce.
Replace the nutritionally vacuous iceberg lettuce with baby spinach in tacos or mix sweet potatoes in your regular mashed potatoes.