Lettuce is also called lettuce, lettuce shoots, green shoots, etc., and there are different names in various regions, which is a kind of rhizome vegetable. Lettuce is a kind of slimming vegetable that is very suitable for summer eating, although the skin of lettuce looks hard and difficult to bite, but after peeling off the hard skin, the lettuce meat inside is crisp and refreshing, and the moisture is very sufficient.
The moisture content of fresh peeled lettuce can reach more than 95%, and in the summer, the weather is hot, and eat a plate of cold mixed lettuce shredded to relieve the heat and replenish the water. But usually we eat the stems of lettuce, and the lettuce leaves are habitually thrown away as kitchen scraps.
Many people have developed such a habit since they began to learn to cook and cook, or some people feel that lettuce leaves taste like "eating grass", so they are not used to eating.
Looking through various recipes, all you can see are fried lettuce, cold mixed lettuce shredded, lettuce scrambled eggs, etc., all of which have nothing to do with lettuce leaves. So can lettuce leaves be eaten in the end?
Let's first look at the nutrients of lettuce and lettuce leaves, each 100 grams of peeled lettuce contains 15 kcal of calories, 0.6 grams of cellulose, and 2.8 grams of carbohydrates. In fact, regardless of lettuce or lettuce leaves, in addition to water, protein, fat and fiber content are relatively low.
However, in terms of vitamins, lettuce leaves have a great advantage, the carotene in lettuce leaves is 9.7 times higher than lettuce stems, and vitamin C is also 14 times higher than lettuce leaves. Both of these vitamins have a certain antioxidant effect, which is very helpful for improving the body's immunity and maintaining vitality.
In this way, lettuce leaves are not only not kitchen garbage, but are very healthy green wild vegetables. There are also many ways to eat lettuce leaves, stir-fry after adding minced garlic, and cold mixing after boiling are suitable for summer eating. If you have time, you can also mix it with cornmeal and bean noodles to make vegetable cakes and eat them as a staple food. It is much more nutritious than simply eating flapjacks.
After talking about lettuce leaves, let's talk about what to pay attention to when eating lettuce:
First of all, lettuce should not be cooked for too long, on the one hand, nutrients will be destroyed and lost by high temperatures, on the other hand, cooking too long and the temperature is too high, so that lettuce is soft and loses its crisp taste.
Secondly, patients with cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and heart disease should try to put less salt or no salt when eating lettuce, so as to avoid too much table salt to raise blood pressure.
Finally, diabetics can eat some lettuce as often as possible, and the vitamin B3 contained in the lettuce is an activator of insulin. It has a certain auxiliary effect on controlling blood glucose stability.
Friends, have you ever eaten lettuce leaves? If you don't eat it, what is the reason? Leave a comment in the comments section below to share your life experience.