Lettuce, also known as lettuce, is emerald green in color and has crisp and tender rhizomes. Unlike most vegetables, lettuce can be eaten raw, blanched cold, and fried, and is also one of the best choices when paired with spicy pots and spicy hot ingredients.
Some people love to eat lettuce, even eat for more than 40 years, but when they usually eat, they mostly eat the roots of lettuce, and they always remove the leaves on the roots of lettuce. In fact, lettuce leaves are also edible vegetables, but some people think that lettuce leaves cannot be eaten by nature.
Just like the Chinese people eat celery, if it is ordinary celery, not parsley, it will throw away the celery leaves, which seems to have become a habit. But it turns out that the celery leaves are more nutritious than the rhizomes of celery on the test.
So, since lettuce leaves can be eaten, we have one more dish, why not use it well?
Others think that lettuce leaves have a lot of pesticide residues and are very dirty, so they can't eat them. In fact, for the problem of pesticide residues, we do not have to worry. The vegetables grown at home may not be sprayed with pesticides, but outside the vegetable shed, a large number of vegetables grow, in order to avoid insects biting vegetables, or vegetables in the growth process mutation and other reactions.
During the growth of vegetables, they will be sprayed with pesticides allowed by the state, even if they remain on the lettuce leaves, as long as they are cleaned with running water, or put a little flour in the water of the lettuce leaves, or cleaned with taomi water, there is no need to worry about pesticide residues, it is not dirty and will not affect the health of the body.
Therefore, people who are still not eating lettuce leaves may wish to try to stir-fry vegetables with lettuce leaves, and eat them with a small amount of sesame sauce and cold mixed with lettuce leaves, which are very delicious. The most precious thing is that the nutritional value of lettuce leaves is still very high.
So which is the nutritional value of lettuce leaves higher than the lettuce rhizome?
In fact, in the two components of carotene and vitamin C, lettuce leaves are higher than lettuce rhizomes, the carotene content in lettuce leaves is about 9 times higher than that of lettuce rhizomes, and the vitamin C content in lettuce leaves is 14 times higher than that of lettuce stems.
It can be seen from this that the nutritional value of lettuce leaves is still very high, with beauty skin care, skin protection, liver protection and other benefits.
Finally, when cooking lettuce leaves, one can blanch the lettuce leaves in water, mix them with simple seasonings and eat them. The second is that it can be fried, or use lettuce leaves to make soup delicacies, with the participation of lettuce leaves, the food not only becomes more delicious, but also much higher in nutrition.
If you use the way of frying, you should pay attention to the rapid frying, lettuce leaves in the vitamin C and other nutrients, belongs to the water-soluble vitamins, fast frying can reduce the loss of vitamin C, more beneficial to health.