I'd rather eat
kale than lettuce in most dishes.
Not exact matches
It's more tender
than kale and offers a healthier alternative to
lettuce in salads.
I imagine you could trade in baby romaine here, or shredded
kale, or shredded endives and roasted mushrooms... The general idea was to treat the
lettuce more as a vegetable
than anything else.
While leaf
lettuce and spinach are both great sources of vitamin A and thiamin, spinach and
kale offer twice the amounts of other vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin and vitamin B - 6 and four or five times more folate and vitamin K
than leaf
lettuce.
Romaine
lettuce will work okay, but it will definitely have a different flavor
than kale.
Leaf
lettuce is more nutrient dense
than kale, according to CDC's report.
Sure, I always get plenty of
lettuce and spinach in salads, but the greens like
kale, bok choy, mustard greens, and swiss chard are WAY more nutrient - dense
than lettuce and spinach.
A 1 - cup portion of raw, chopped
kale offers around 90 milligrams of calcium, versus fewer
than 15 milligrams from the same amount of
lettuce.
A 1 - cup serving of chopped
lettuce provides around 10 calories, whereas the same amount of
kale has more
than 30 calories, according to the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
Lunch — huge salad (bowl larger
than my head) with romaine
lettuce,
kale, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, mushrooms, can of tuna, 2 tbsp olive oil, 3 tbsp lemon juice, 1 tbsp white vinegar, 1 cup of walnuts
Romaine is nice, but
kale is nutrient dense and filling and I actually find it easer to grow
than lettuce.
Generally, heartier greens like
kale, chard, and collards are more nutrient rich
than greens like
lettuce, but all leafy greens contain chlorophyll, which may help support detoxification in your body.