Eat something healthy, but that it was tasty and did not want to eat for a long time! What is the problem? If your diet contains lettuce dishes, you will not only discover a world of new amazing taste sensations, forget about hunger, unhealthy snacks (sandwiches, chocolates, buns), but you will also get a “personal cosmetologist and nutritionist” who can improve your appearance and a figure without plastic surgery, super-expensive creams and other beauty products. Some who are not familiar with green salad consider it a “boring” food that only diet freaks prefer. Well, what can be prepared from it? Unless to chew once, and then when there is no choice. Such thinking “smells” of the remnants of the past post-Soviet times, when they rarely cooked anything from lettuce leaves, and at the mention of “salad” they represented “herring under a fur coat” or “olivier”. Today, the trend of a healthy lifestyle that has swept almost the whole world has revealed to us a lot of secrets, including culinary ones. And among the popular tasty and healthy foods, lettuce leaves appear in the forefront: they are inferior only in their beneficial qualities to spinach and broccoli. Green salads are in favor of most cuisines of the world: Italian, French, Greek, etc. Moreover, there are more than a hundred varieties of lettuce: iceberg, frieze, watercress, arugula, romaine, lettuce, radiccio, lolorosso and many more others. Lettuce and five “pros” include it in your diet 1. An excellent tool in the fight against excess weight: low-calorie (100/14 cal), stimulates intestinal motility, cleanses the body of toxins, normalizes the digestive tract and reduces appetite2. The salad contains about 99 microelements and useful substances useful for human health: it contains folic acid and pectins that neutralize bad cholesterol, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, calcium, beta-carotene, vitamins C, A, K, PP, B1, B2. It has a high content of vitamin E. 3. In folk medicine, this green vegetable is known for its healing properties: it prevents anemia and osteoporosis. Due to the presence of antioxidants, vitamin C and beta-keratin, it strengthens the immune system and protects against free radicals, thereby reducing the risk of cancer. 4. Beauticians regard lettuce, as well as spinach, parsley and other greens, as a super remedy for skin aging: its action occurs at the cellular level. Eating a daily serving of greens, you prolong your youth and prevent the appearance of wrinkles, dryness and flabbiness of the skin. 5. Lettuce is an excellent remedy for insomnia, as it improves the quality of sleep and relieves fatigue due to the content of a substance called lactucaria. Salad is also delicious: cooking nuances There are no particular difficulties in preparing salad dishes, but some nuances should be taken into account. For example, to keep lettuce leaves strong and crispy, it is better to wash them with cold water and serve as soon as something has been prepared from them. Lettuce is torn by hand, put whole or cut: although the latter option, according to culinary specialists, reduces the taste and useful qualities of the product. Another thing is to simply arbitrarily break the leaves with your hands. Lettuce leaves are combined with almost all products (cheese, nuts, vegetables, fruits, crackers, eggs, seafood, etc.), so you have a great opportunity to show your imagination, and who knows, even create a masterpiece dish. Bon appetit!