Lettuce is a leafy green vegetable which is less known to the
populace. It is known to Indian people in the name of salad patta. As
the name itself is giving the clue that lettuce is used more in salads.
Besides it is also used in soups, wraps and sandwiches due its
extraordinary health and skin care benefits.
Proteins
Lettuce
consists nearly 20 percent of proteins which acts like building blocks
for the body development. These proteins help for the major metabolic
reactions in the body, and also needed for the formation of the muscles.
Less sugar
Very
similar to artificial flavors, artificial sugars also retain your body
in the harmful state when it is consumed in the excess amounts. As
lettuce is having less sugar amounts one need not to bother about to eat
high amounts of it.
Iron
Eating lettuce
leaves is a good way to regulate iron quantity in our body. For the
blood hemoglobin and also to treat many heart related problems iron is
key. Prefer romaine variety lettuce to get high amounts of iron compared
to iceberg variety, romaine offers nearly 4 times more iron than
iceberg.
Vitamin K
Romaine lettuce helps to
offer rich quantity of vitamin K, it have three times more vitamin K
amount than in the normal iceberg lettuce type. This vitamin is vital
for the functioning of the body, especially pregnant women have more
advantages, with the help of the vitamin K neural defects during
pregnancy can be discarded.
Vitamin C
There
are many health benefits of getting vitamin C. Antioxidants of vitamin C
helps to combat with free radical molecules and they also aid to treat
unwanted reactions that promote for certain kind of diseases, even
cancers also.
Weight loss
Lettuce is a
beneficial for the health with its right proportion of nutrients and low
amount of fat content and calories. Hence it has become a weight loss
veggie and is suitable for the people who are under the program of
weight loss.
Omega-3 fatty acids
For the
maintenance of the good health one must need the fatty acids omega-3 and
omega-6, which are available perfectly in lettuce. It consists two
portions of omega-3 and one portion of omega-6.
In addition to many health benefits lettuce is all set with many skin care benefits
Vitamin A
Lettuce
with its rich source of vitamin A offers you 100% of daily required
vitamin quantity just from six lettuce leaves. This vitamin is known to
responsible for the increase of the cell count which in turn aids for
the skin revitalization.
Potassium
To tune
your skin glowing and healthy, potassium is one everyone is in need of.
Get the potassium amount by adding lettuce in your diet. Infact
potassium is helpful for the nutrition and oxygen supply, the process
that helps for the improvement of the circulation in the body.
Vitamin E and C
The
combination of vitamin E and C have been linked with the skin health
and betterment. Vitamin C helps to prevent the aging factors where as
vitamin E protects the skin from harmful UV rays emerging from sun and
it also reduces macular degeneration and cataracts.
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