Iceberg lettuce is a healthy and tasty food that is familiar to many adherents of a healthy diet. The green leaves of this product can be used to prepare a wide variety of dishes - vegetable salads, soups, sandwiches, sandwiches. But few people know why a salad, similar to white cabbage, got such a name.
The juicy iceberg lettuce is appreciated not only for its pleasant taste, but also for its low calorie content. Therefore, its leaves are especially common in the diet of people who want to lose weight. Iceberg became popular in Russia no more than ten years ago, and many buyers still confuse salad with cabbage.
Secrets of the name of iceberg lettuce
Iceberg lettuce is often called ice salad. For the first time such a lettuce was developed in California, it was there that enterprising farmers began to produce Iceberg on a large scale. And in order to preserve the freshness of green heads of cabbage, crispy salad was covered with ice to transport agricultural products. This is why the salad got its name. "Ice" salad was shipped from California to neighboring states, and then this crop began to be grown in different countries.
You can also often hear that ice salad is called "Ice Mountain" or crisphead. But in fact, Iceberg is a kind of crisphead salad variety. Crispy salad is especially useful raw and is widely used in cooking for preparing hot and cold dishes.
Iceberg is appreciated by culinary experts for its ability to keep fresh for up to a month. You can safely store a head of lettuce in the refrigerator for more than three weeks while mastering a variety of recipes.
Why Iceberg is useful
Iceberg loses most of its valuable substances during heat treatment, so nutritionists recommend putting lettuce leaves in cold dishes. Salads with ice salad can be seasoned with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice. You can combine salad with tuna, chicken breast, tomatoes and other vegetables, herbs, nuts, cheese. Iceberg is placed in dishes both in crushed form and mouth-watering leaves are used to lay out salads.
Crispy salad contains high amounts of folic acid, so Iceberg should be a must in your diet if you suffer from depression, irritability, or exercise. Indispensable salad and during pregnancy.
Lettuce has a positive effect on vision, the state of the cardiovascular system, it stimulates brain activity. Iceberg also improves metabolism, contains a lot of iron, calcium, vitamin A, C. Leaves of lettuce with an unusual name can reduce the amount of harmful salts in the human body, normalize the level of hemoglobin.
