LACK OF NUTRIENTS in Iceberg Lettuce

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Here's the USDA nutrient database, so anyone can look lettuce up or

anything else, for that matter. This is much more accurate than

anything else I've seen on the web, and it gets updated from time to time:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=20957

You can look up just about anything you eat and see its actual

nutrients. If you look up iceberg lettuce, you'll see that it's a very

poor source for just about any nutrient except water. I have no idea

where they got the idea that " It is also a good source of Thiamin,

Vitamin B6, Iron and Potassium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber,

Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate and Manganese. " It has very

close to zero of any of these.

You can save this database, and any time you want to know what's in

something, look here instead of doing an online search and getting

information that may or may not be any good.

H.