"Tear or cut the leaves before you wash the lettuce," says Weinstein. "The coziest place for contaminants to reside is deep inside, where leaves meet core." Steps for washing lettuce: ...

Videos of people claiming to find “plastic” on their lettuce are older than TikTok, by the way. Snopes wrote about this phenomenon in 2018, and quoted a source debunking similar videos from ...

Red leaf lettuce contains 42% of the daily value of vitamin A. It also contains small amounts of vitamin C and iron. A cup of chopped romaine lettuce contains: ...

Early planted spring greens, lettuce, Chinese greens and many spinach varieties don’t live long and mature quickly, besides being sensitive to high temperatures and low humidity.