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Along with butterhead lettuce, crisphead is one of the two main types of head lettuce. Crisphead lettuce varieties feature tightly packed pale green leaves that grow in large, round heads that provide crisp, juicy salad greens.
A type of lettuce with loose outer leaves that have a mild, buttery flavor. It is slightly large than Bibb lettuce and is part of the butterhead lettuce family.
A lettuce that grows in a head of long narrow leaves that has a crunchy rib down the center and a mild tangy flavor.
A lettuce that originated on the Aegean island of Cos. It grows in a head of long narrow leaves that have a crunchy rib down the center and a mild tangy flavor.
Along with crisphead lettuce, butterhead is one of the two main types of head lettuce. This vegetable is a small head lettuce with leaves that grow close to and surrounding the head of the vegetable.
A type of lettuce that has leaves that grow in a dense circular shape. There are many varieties of head lettuce, all of which are grouped into two categories: crisphead, such as iceberg lettuce and butterhead, such as bibb lettuce.
A generic name given to a variety of different types of leafy vegetables that are most often used in salads or sandwiches.
One of the five distinct types of garden lettuce used for salad greens and other dishes. The leaf is similar to romaine lettuce, but unlike romaine, is not considered edible due to the milky sap that forms soon after it matures.
A plastic serrated edge knife that is designed to slice lettuce without causing the edges of the lettuce to turn brown.
A variety of lettuce that has a tapering head and light-green leaves. It is a type of butterhead lettuce with a buttery texture an excellent for use as a salad green.
A family of vegetables consisting of five varieties classified according to shape and growth. The leafy green vegetable is used in salads, cooked vegetable dishes, and is commonly used on sandwiches.
A loose leaf variety of lettuce that appears to look somewhat similar to curly endive. With broad green leaves that begin growing very frilly edges, Tango Lettuce develops into a longer length leaves with darker green coloring especially around the outer edges which become slightly less crinkled in appearance as the Lettuce matures.
A leaf lettuce variety that has long leaves with very ruffled edges that are green toward the interior of the head and are red on the outer portion of the head.
The most popular of the garden lettuce, this vegetable is a loose-leaf variety of lettuce that can be grown as a flat, smooth, rough, round, frilly or oak shaped leaf.
A type of crisphead lettuce that has crisp, light green leaves that are formed into a densely packed head.
A cooking green that is a celtuce variety of garden lettuce grown for its thick edible stem instead of the leaf, which is thin and bitter tasting.
A salad green that has small dark green, velvety leaves with a rich, sweet flavor, similar to hazelnut.
Red leaf or green leaf lettuce varieties that loosely extend out from the stalk forming a leafed stem instead of a headed plant having leaves that remain close and tightly grouped around the head.
A variety of salad greens that are shaped like on oak leaf, grown as green or red oak leaf lettuce. The green variety has a rounded shaped leaf, which provides a mild flavor to salads or other foods.
A leafy salad green that grows from a stalk and spreads out to form a loose leafed bunch of greens with a decorative frilled red edging.
Top 53 glossary terms found