Salad

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Originally Posted by Vivi22

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Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy

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Originally Posted by Nutrition Data

This food is low in Sodium, and very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Iron and Potassium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate and Manganese.

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Iceberg lettuce has less nutritional value compared to any other form of lettuce I know of.

As for the stuff above, I could run through it one at a time if you'd like.
Low in sodium, saturated fat and cholesterol: it's lettuce for one so no trout. Second, none of that actually matters all that much.
Thiamin: This is in pretty much everything you'll eat anyway, but 100g of iceberg lettuce only has 3% of your daily requirement. You'll find almost double the amount in romaine lettuce, quadruple in beef liver, and triple for a 100g steak as well. It's a source sure, but there's no shortage of better ones for the same mass of food.

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Um...that site you linked to says the exact same thing I quoted in my very first post, the same thing that spuuky said was "just false". It also receives a 5 star rating for optimum health from the site you used and scores at just about the top of the chart for nutritional value to fullness factor, which doesn't sound so bad. You can take it up with them if you have a problem with it but as that seems to be where you're getting all your facts from I assume they get the okay from you.

I also like how you stopped using percentages before you got to vitamin C, which iceberg gives you 3% of your DI for (romaine/cos gives 2%), folate (iceberg has 5%, romaine has 2%). manganese (iceberg 4%, romaine 0%), or vitamin K (iceberg 22%, romaine 8%). In fact there isn't a single mineral in a portion of romaine lettuce that gives you even a 1% increase toward your recommended daily intake, while iceberg has 8.

And all of that is comparing the two lettuces which I specifically said I did not want to do in the first place so smurf thank you so much for dragging me into a petty, fact spouting, internet argument. That said, I really can't wait to hear your next condescending, elitist and downright rude rebuttal though, I'm waiting with baited breath :up:

Well, this has gone down like the Titanic....

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ps.

I want all the rep for that.

also

eyesonlettuceexperts.com

oh my god guys it's just smurfing leaves

Yeah, everyone should just leave this argument right now.

why don't we make like a tree and get out of here

Nah, I think I will stay. Just cos.

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Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy

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Originally Posted by Vivi22

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Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy

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Originally Posted by Nutrition Data

This food is low in Sodium, and very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Iron and Potassium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate and Manganese.

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Iceberg lettuce has less nutritional value compared to any other form of lettuce I know of.

As for the stuff above, I could run through it one at a time if you'd like.
Low in sodium, saturated fat and cholesterol: it's lettuce for one so no trout. Second, none of that actually matters all that much.
Thiamin: This is in pretty much everything you'll eat anyway, but 100g of iceberg lettuce only has 3% of your daily requirement. You'll find almost double the amount in romaine lettuce, quadruple in beef liver, and triple for a 100g steak as well. It's a source sure, but there's no shortage of better ones for the same mass of food.

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Um...that site you linked to says the exact same thing I quoted in my very first post, the same thing that spuuky said was "just false". It also receives a 5 star rating for optimum health from the site you used and scores at just about the top of the chart for nutritional value to fullness factor, which doesn't sound so bad. You can take it up with them if you have a problem with it but as that seems to be where you're getting all your facts from I assume they get the okay from you.

I also like how you stopped using percentages before you got to vitamin C, which iceberg gives you 3% of your DI for (romaine/cos gives 2%), folate (iceberg has 5%, romaine has 2%). manganese (iceberg 4%, romaine 0%), or vitamin K (iceberg 22%, romaine 8%). In fact there isn't a single mineral in a portion of romaine lettuce that gives you even a 1% increase toward your recommended daily intake, while iceberg has 8.

And all of that is comparing the two lettuces which I specifically said I did not want to do in the first place so smurf thank you so much for dragging me into a petty, fact spouting, internet argument. That said, I really can't wait to hear your next condescending, elitist and downright rude rebuttal though, I'm waiting with baited breath :up:

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Go ahead and click on those links and set the quantity to 100g for each instead of comparing the default of 72g of iceberg lettuce and 6g of Romaine, then feel free to take another crack at this. If you're not comparing the equivalent amounts as I was when I checked every single nutrient and mineral you mentioned in your quote that quantified nothing, then you can't draw a useful conclusion.

Also, I couldn't care less if that site claims iceberg is a good source of all of the things you mentioned or gives it five stars for being healthy because those are utterly meaningless, especially since the numbers show that it's worse than Romaine and quite a few other foods in every single category you mentioned.

Lettuce be thankful for this radicchiolous argument.

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Forgive me for wanting people to actually use facts to back up statements they make rather than "some person on the internet said..."

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And also forgive me if I like to back up my statements with facts when someone decides to call me insane for stating something that's true. If my taking it personally when someone calls me insane bothers you then that's too smurfing bad quite frankly. We're all (or most of us anyway) adults here. If two people debating is honestly so unbearable then I suggest sucking it up and moving on because I really don't give a trout.

I'm not taking it personally, I'm just making trout puns about what is most definitely, a nitpicky argument.

Feel free to take it up with your boyfriend then.

I probably will. We'll have a laugh about it all day. Just have a laugh about it.

I think I might go grab the iceburg lettuce out of the fridge and throw it at him, while laughing at him for being so serious about an internet argument. Because it's funny. It's funny, just laugh about it instead

Laugh about what? Phil calling me insane and coming off as a bit of a dick? Sure, I'll go have a grand old laugh about that.