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What are the Different Kinds of Lettuce That Make up the Lettuce Cultivar Group
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Tags: Lettuce, Cultivars, Romaine, Looseleaf, Chinese, Butterhead, Iceberg
In my attempt to try and eat better, I decided that I would eat more salads. And what makes up the majority of most salads? Lettuce. So I did a little looking into this thing called lettuce and found out that different lettuce is assigned to Cultivar Groups depending on the head formation and leaf structure. Here they are:
| | Butterhead - also knows as Boston or Bibb, forms a loose head, buttery in flavor. |
| | Chinese lettuce - long sword like leaves with a bitter or robust flavor (I don't like these) |
| | Crisphead - also known as iceburg. Tight, dense heads that look like cabbage. Very mild flavor but very crisp texture. |
| | Looseleaf - tender, delicate, mild flavor leaves |
| | Romaine - head formed with long leaves (my favorite!) |
| | Summer Crisp - also knows as Batavian, dense head, crunchy texture, kind of falls between the iceberg and looseleaf types. |
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