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   Lettuce, either in salad or a burger, is a crunchy and leafy vegetable of which mostly the leaves are eaten, but sometimes stems and seeds are consumed too. This vegetable comes in many shades of green or a purplish red, and is mostly crisp and ruffled. It normally tastes neutral to mildly sweet. It needs a well-drained and fertile soil for cultivation and 75% of it is grown in China, India and the U.S.A. The most ommon type of lettuce is Romaine and Iceberg Lettuce.
   Iceberg Lettuce, or crisphead lettuce, is the most iconic variety of lettuce, and was produced by the name in 1894 by a garden16 ing industry founded by the Burpee Seed Company. It was named after the way it was packed and transported which was by laying bundles of them on crushed ice (to keep them fresh), which gave their heads a look similar to that of Icebergs, and hence, the name was coined.
   Iceberg Lettuce is low in fibre, but there are many advantages of taking it once in a while too. First things first, It is 96% water, being great for hot summers, and has a sufficient amount of Vitamin A, B, C and K, Calcium, and Potassium. An interesting fact is that Iceberg lettuce is real low in sugar, fat and calories, with a baffling average one calorie per leaf!

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