I highly recommend getting a daily romaine salad into your normal eating habits. So a tiny bit more carbs than iceberg - but far better for you health wise. You get 75% your daily serving of Vitamin K with a single cup, along with 30% of your Vitamin A, 22% Vitamin C and much more.
Romaine is the dark, "fluffy" lettuce type - less crisp than iceberg, but containing FAR more nutrition. It's only 1g of carbs per cup and you get 42% of your vitamin A, as well as 2% vitamin C, 2% iron, and 1% calcium. You don't get a lot of nutrition here - for the 2g of carbs per cup, you only get 5% Vitamin C, 1% iron, and not much else.Īs you might imagine, this lettuce type has a slightly red tint to its leaves. It's got a strong bitter-spicy flavor to it and is usually served with fruit salads rather than as a standalone veggie salad. It's shaped in a ball like an iceberg, but is a reddish-purple color rather than green. This lettuce isn't actually a lettuce, it's a chicory leaf.
So this is a good way to get you started on salads, if you're not used to them, but try to "move up" from iceberg when you can. On the downside, iceberg lettuce has little flavor and not much nutrition. Many salads are a serving of iceberg lettuce plus a few tomatoes and cukes, then salad dressing. It's only 0.4g of carbs for an entire cup of lettuce, as in not even 1g.
It is the round ball shaped lettuce that is very crisp and crunchy, and used frequently in salads and on burgers. Iceberg lettuce is the first type of lettuce that most people encounter. Try to have two salads a day!īutterhead lettuce is a group that includes Boston and Bibb styles of lettuce.
CARBS IN ICEBERG LETTUCE FULL
It is fresh, nutritious, filling, full of water, and helps hold together your other salad items.
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