Defend lettuce. I fucking dare you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/why-salad-is-so-overrated/2015/08/21/ecc03d7a-4677-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html
>>9053805
>problematic foods
>Almonds, for their water use. Corn, for the monoculture. Beef, for its greenhouse gases.
>Washington post
>>9053805
Water really has no business being in food.
>>9053805
Those are cabbages.
>>9053805
The point of the article is spot on - there's no defense for most of the salads eaten in the US, and the reasons people have for eating them are equally bullshit. But that doesn't make lettuce bad. It just makes the popularity of it absurd.
>>9053863
MY CABBAGES
>>9053805
lettuce is fucking great for you.
don't let anyone lie to you.
>>9053887
Lettuce is nothing for you.
It's green, leafy, flavorless, almost calorie-free water with almost no nutritional value.
>>9053860