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Red Leaf
One of the world’s most popular salad
Lettuce
Salad
vegetables, lettuce comes in many
shapes, sizes and colors. It is usually
I’m Lamar Lettuce and I am in
Tim e
the Red Leaf circle. As my
served cold and fresh although some
name suggests, I have large,
cultures will cook or steam lettuce.
open leaves and my color is a reddish-
purple. The most popular lettuce varieties
grow in tight balls called “heads.” Some of my
cousins grow in water, that’s called hydroponics.
My close lettuce relatives include romaine,
green and butter. We are harvested by cutting
the short stem underneath our leafy mass.
We are fat-free and offer more nutrients
maze
than green lettuce, like more of vitamins A and K.
I also add flavor, texture and nutrition to many
Find your way to the
different recipes.
red leaf lettuce
Fun
1. The High Plains
Launch
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2. North Texas
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FACT
3. East Texas
3
Pa d
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4. Central Texas
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5. Trans Pecos
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Did you know lettuce
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RED LEAF LETTUCE
6. Winter Garden
is a member of the
7. Coastal Blend
GROWING REGIONS
8
sunflower family?
8. Rio Grande Valley
INGREDIENTS
PREPARATION
1. Cut apple in quarters; remove
1 apple (such as Fuji or Pink Lady
Joke of the
Washington) • 1 can 12-oz chunk light
core and chop. 2. In a medium-sized
tuna (drained) • 2 tablespoons low-fat
bowl, mix all salad ingredients, except
month
plain yogurt • 2 tablespoons reduced-
tuna. 3. Gently fold in tuna. 4. Make
fat mayonnaise • ½ cup raisins (or
sandwiches, using lettuce and whole-
Knock Knock!
chopped figs) • ¼ cup chopped walnuts
grain bread (toasted, if desired), and
1 / 8
teaspoon ground black pepper
fill with tuna apple salad.
Who’s there?
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Lettuce.
Tuna Apple Salad
(optional) • ½ teaspoon curry powder
Recipes courtesy of:
(optional) • 8 leaves lettuce (Bibb,
Lettuce who?
San dwich
Romaine, green, or red leaf) • 8 slices
whole-grain bread
Lettuce in,
we’re freezing.

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