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10 facts about salad:


1. Salad comes from the Latin word “herba salta” or “salted herbs,” so called because such greens were usually seasoned with dressings containing lots of salt.



2. Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.



3. The lettuce we see today actually started out as a weed around the Mediterranean basin.



4. Christopher Columbus introduced lettuce to the Americas.


5. The original wild lettuce “Lactuca serriola” was known as “prickly lettuce” and grown for medicinal purposes as it contained a milky sap which has mild sleep-inducing properties.



6. Lettuce is the second most popular fresh vegetable in the US behind potatoes.



7. The average American eats approximately 30 pounds of lettuce each year, which is five times what was eaten in 1900.



8. Lettuce was first eaten by the ancient kings of Persia



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