Salad ingredients

[ChrisE]

I know that salad ingredients may not be the top item on everyone's boat but I'll try this question on the team on the off chnace that your eclectic interests have the knowledge.

I've heard that the pre-cut salad portions you buy in sealed packets at the supermarket have lost their nutritional value. Is this an urban myth or can someone provide me with a substantive reference about this? I've done a google but my limited skills haven't thrown anything up.

 

[StugeronSteve]

I've heard similar and I also read that the salad is washed in a chlorine solution stronger than swimming pool water.

 

[mirabriani]

Yes, Dearheart has quoted that, therefore it must be true!

Regards Briani

 

[zefender]

Try Here for info (but possibly misinfo)

 

[tonyran]

No salad has any nutritional value. In fact it takes more energy to digest lettuce than is derived from the process! Lettuce is also a mild natural opiate and apparently a letuce sandwich is as good as a sleeping pill.

 

[boatmike]

Either way it tastes like blotting paper. Buy the ingredients and chop them up yourself! Not exactly difficult and you know what you are getting too. Height of lasyness. Like oven ready chips and Fray Bentos pies!

 

[Rowana]

I wouldn't say anything against FB pies on here, if I were you . . .

 

[Beagle]

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Buy the ingredients and chop them up yourself

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Will still taste like sh*t. Old rule says, if the meat is green, it's no good. Same is valid for all other possible food....

 

[boatmike]

Most of the FB pie brigade would not remain sober for long enough to know the difference in taste between the pie and the tin.......

 

[boatmike]

My mother always said people who eat up all their greens have bigger brains.
I think you just proved her right!

 

[ZuidWester]

Eat dirt!

The problem is that in intensive agriculture soils lose the trace minerals that should also be present in the vegetables we eat. Artificial fertilisers only usually contain NPK (nitrates, phosphates and potassium). Great for making bombs, but they do not replace trace elements. Organic farming sustains trace elements by intrducing dung.
So the moral of the story is that pre-cut lettuce is just like non pre-cut lettuce. They are both boring.

 

[Peppermint]

Re: Right. We\'ve asked the expert.

Thats some sort of professor bloke I know. Works on lowering cholesterol through diet.

He says it would be unwise to generalize. Lot of variables at work here. How stuffs grown, how long since picked, when processed, how long on shelf etc.

Nothing has no nutritional value. That works however you look at it.

It is likely that fruit & veg, going through the supermarket processes will loose some flavour & nutrition but again it very much depends on individual circumstances.

His preference is for locally grown produce picked in season and processed just prior to eating.

The supermarket stuff is better than eating no fruit/salad at all though.

Me. I don't eat green stuff that hasn't been cooked.

 

[ChrisE]

Re: Right. We\'ve asked the expert.

Thanks, I kind of thought that someone might have a sensible answer. I'll continue with my Asda salads from a bag.

As for the FB brigade just wait until you get to 53 (like your venerable questioner), if you make it, you might start taking this kind of stuff seriously. Alternatively you can just do a Dennis Connor and end up as rail fodder.

Not that I am at all bitter and twisted about those of you that can eat a cow for breakfast, a sheep for lunch and a haggis for dinner and still not put on weight.

 

[boatmike]

Re: Right. We\'ve asked the expert.

Actually Chris, I am 10 years older than you and still not overweight. But then I have always been fussy what I eat. What the FB brigade forget is that meat comes from cows that eat greenstuff so they are only getting second hand rubbish by eating the cow anyway!
Never mind the quality of fruit, salad, and veggies which come from Africa, Israel, Caribbean etc. You can judge the quality of this fairly easily, especially "organically grown". What about the quality of meat? Where does the majority of that come from? Full of artificial hormones, re-cycled bits of other animals, rubbish that is unfit for human consumption. e-numbers to preserve it......Ughhh!! And what ends up in a FB pie I would not like to guess...... YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!!!

 

[Peppermint]

Re: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!!! My God!

Are you saying that some of us are Fray Bentos pies?

Is canabalism about to break out on the forum?

We should be told.

Anyway I'd rather be a pie than a bit of rocket.

 

[jimi]

Re: Right. We\'ve asked the expert.

What a load of bollox, I'd have thought you've have learned sense at your age .. what you eat is irrelevant ..its what you do thats matters.. To be is to do .. Immanuel Kant

 

[FergusM]

Re: Right. We\'ve asked the expert.

Do be do be do

Frank Sinatra