Lettuce
is one of the popular cool season leafy salad crops grown throughout the world
due to its food value in diet. Among all, garden lettuce is being grown on
commercial scale. Lettuce is most often grown as a leaf vegetable, but
sometimes for its stem and seeds as well. This
leafy vegetable is a nutritious and great source of minerals and vitamins.
Apart from salad purpose, it is also used in soups, sandwiches and wraps or it
can also be grilled. Lettuce is native to Egypt and later spread across the
world. As lettuce is low in calories, it being used in weight loss programs.
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Amaranthus
or Amaranth or Amaranths is one of the oldest warm climate leafy vegetable
crops grown since centuries. At present, Amaranth is extensively grown as a
green, leafy vegetable in many temperate and tropical regions in the world.
When it comes to plant description, it is erect and spreading annuals with a
rough appearance. Amaranth is grown for its green leaves and grains. Even these
plants can be grown as ornamental purpose. Most of the Amaranthus species are originated in
India or Indo-China or South East Asia region and spread across the world.
However, it is produced and used as a grain or leafy vegetable in India,
Mexico, China, Southeast Asia Regions, the Andean highlands in South America
and the United States.
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