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Coral Red Lettuce
Quick ViewCoral lettuce, also known as loose-leaf lettuce, varies in shape, colour, and texture — though it’s usually crisp, ruffled, and dark green or red, with a flavour ranging from mild to sweet. These very decorative lettuce types add a punch of colour, texture and volume to salads. The curled leaves also have a practical function as they increase the surface area enabling salad dressings to be caught up in the leaf and not to the bottom of your salad bowl.
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Iceberg Lettuce
Quick ViewIceberg lettuce, also known as crisphead lettuce, has pale green leaves and grows in cabbage-like bulbs. Iceberg lettuce is a great bridge food for people who don’t eat enough other vegetables. It has a mild, sweet flavour and a pleasant crunch. And while iceberg lettuce gets a bad reputation for not being as nutritious as other lettuces, it’s packed with Vitamin A, Vitamin K, and folate. Iceberg lettuce can offer a range of important health benefits for you and your family.
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Oakleaf Green Lettuce
Quick ViewLettuce Green Oakleaf is a popular Heirloom variety, grown for its striking rich green colour and its beautiful notched leaves, which are shaped like an oak leaf. The leaf form produces a dense bunch of leaves, which have a tender sweet flavour with good resistance to bolting.
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Oakleaf Red Lettuce
Quick ViewRed oak lettuce is known for its incredibly sweet and mellow flavour, nutty with a buttery texture—and how beautiful it looks on the plate. Lettuce leaves are burgundy-red stained, elongated, lobed and loosely serrated, similar to the leaves of an oak tree. They form semi-tight rosettes at the core.
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Romaine Lettuce
Quick ViewRomaine lettuce leaves are green in colour, and fade to a white stalk with a green tint in the centre of each leaf. The leaves also offer a neutral flavour, with a slight bitterness at the bottom, giving a distinctive flavour profile. Aside from the green romaine that we commonly see in grocery stores, romaine lettuce also comes in the red variety, with a blend of green at the stalk and a reddish-purple leafy top.