Monday, August 19

 
Lettuce: The Newest Processed Food
Here's another story that makes you register at the Web site before you can read it, but once again, it's a worthwhile place to park your address. The packaged salad has become the flagship product in the lettuce department. What was the eye-rolling product introduction of the early 90s has become the salad-makings of choice for more consumers. Lettuce - once a reliably unprocessed food in the supermarekt - is now officially a processed food, unless you continue to buy it by the less-expensive but labor-intensive head. What's instructive is the idea that the lettuce that goes into the bag salads is its second-grade quality. You can expect a more compelling description in the next FoodWords newsletter, out next week, but for now, here you go.
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