
08/17/2020
Check out these cool facts about salads you probably never knew about:
1. Lettuce is the second most popular fresh vegetable in the US behind potatoes.
2. The average American eats approximately 30 pounds of lettuce each year, which is five times what was eaten in 1900.
3. Lettuce was first eaten by the ancient kings of Persia 2,500 years ago.
4. The ancient Greeks and Romans thought that eating lettuce helped you to have a good night’s sleep.
5. In the 1930’s U.S. spinach growers credited Popeye with a 33% increase in domestic spinach consumption.
Wow!