Does lettuce have any health benefit?!
Answers: Besides the general "all vegetables are healthy " What exactly does Lettuce do for the body?
Lettuce Nutrition Info
Lettuce is exceptionally low in calories and contains over 90% water. However, dark lettuce leaves are rich in folate and contain useful amounts of beta-carotene as well as vitamin C, potassium and certain phyto-chemicals (coumarins, flavonoids and lactucin) that act as a mild sedative, especially when eaten with bread.
Lettuce Health Benefits
Lettuce aids digestion and promotes liver health. It can also reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke and cataracts. Other research shows it helps to reduce the risk of cancer and may ease nervous insomnia. If iceberg is the only type of lettuce you eat, you are choosing the least-nutritious member of a family of nutritional champions. Any other lettuce or leafy green vegetable would be a better choice. Most other greens are also good sources of vitamin C, beta-carotene, folate, and dietary fiber as well as some calcium. As a general rule, the darker green the leaves, the more nutritious the salad green. For example, romaine or watercress have seven to eight times as much beta-carotene, and two to four times the calcium, and twice the amount of potassium as iceberg lettuce. By varying the greens in your salads, you can enhance the nutritional content as well as vary the tastes and textures.
it contain water and minerals
It's high in crunchiness.
one great thing is ruffage... It helps you not have to read the whole paper on the throne in the morning.
Basically, no value...no nutritional value at all.
Other greens, like spinach, have high nutritional value.
fiber, minerals, water
Dark greens, like spinach, leaf lettuce, and romaine, are all good for you.
Iceberg lettuce is like water.
Sometime in the 90s, the news was saying that although previously believed to have no nutritional value, Iceberg lettuce can reduce the risk of breast cancer.
That's just what I have from memory. I don't know where things stand today.