I think this country could be in danger of becoming under-nourished..... .....

Leaves and lettuce are packed with
Beta-carotens
magnesium
potassium
folic acid
also silicon which supports bones,joints arteries and connective tissue.

{smile]

I see that the personal insult is rearing its head again.

I lurrve my bags of leaves , very healthy and tasty , No-One will convince me otherwise .

I became a veggie (piscetarian) around the same time as I had the menopause. It's probably a coincidence, but I did have an easy time and no need for HRT.

Don't waste your money on bags of old lettuce, green salad has hardly any vitamins in it at all. Good for fibre if you need it and it looks tasty but don't buy it for the vitamins.

Better a banana or an orange or a carrot. I only buy organic carrots, but other veg is OK.

I am on my third life! Antibiotics saved me from death by pneumonia and later by bloodpoisoning. ( a rescue cat bit me) Looking at it realistically it is better to eat well, eat what you like, don't drink too much, don't smoke but RELAX. Stress is what kills people. There is not much left to learn about living longer in good health, but the papers will carry on about it.
My daughter is a microbiologist and they are always doing tests and half of the papers disappear in the bottom drawer because they couldn't prove anything. Doesn't stop the media from publishing them though.
Now she is researching stem cells and when they have cracked that nut, then we shall all live forever.

I was just trying to imagine a menopausal beet root with hot flushes

Oh! Vegetarians! Sorry. Thought you meant vegetables.

Do veggies get a menopause at all?

I"ve only justlooked at this thread. Someone seemed to suggest you shouldn't eat carrots everyday or was that, you shouldn't eat anything everyday. I eat a banana everyday. Also someone seemed to suggest that veggies don"t get a bad menopause. What utter poop!

I get Little Gem ones. So easy. Just a quick rinse on the outside, slice in half, and on the plate.

And crisp and tasty.

Little Gem? (That is not a compliment to you Galen; it's a query.)

I like the baby variety.

I like the bags of leaves as it is nice to have variations . I am also very fond of cos lettuce , know it is a bit more expensive , but so what ? Oue take on it is , if we cannot have what we like at our time of life , it is a poor show

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Cut spinach was named as the main culprit in the article J0 posted:

'In the analysis of the exposure to different salad vegetables a significant statistical association was found between infection and the consumption of pre-cut spinach.'

I'm not partial to raw spinach, but some restaurant salads seem to be of the pre-packaged variety and often contain spinach.

janeainsworth The producers are working hard with rapeseed oil nowadays, doing single cold pressings à la olive oil resulting in a really high-quality product. It is a very "healthy" oil being low in saturates – I think it even scores better than olive oil.

Absent I don't get the ones with iceberg lettuce in them.
I get ones that are usually called 'baby leaf' or some such.
They contain a mixture of things like lambs lettuce, spinach , rocket etc which if you buy them spearately would cost a lot more and probably end up on the compost heap.
Talking of dressings my DD bought me a set of flavoured rapeseed oils from a company in Shropshire - I've only tried the lemon-flavoured one so far but a few drops sprinkled over salad is just gorgeous

I really dislike bags of salad as they always seem to contain mainly tasteless lettuce, such as iceberg, or that bloody lollo rosso (or bianco) that slurps up all the dressing.

Morrisons was named in an article that I read, just after having had a salad for my lunch

#probablytescos

Oh yes. Hadn't thought of that.

Not sure many people could positively identify that as a Waitrose sticker!
They all look the same to me

Well, the salad in the illustration definitely had a Waitrose reduced sticker on it! Not sure they would be very pleased about that! Bit unfair too.

I notice jo8 that the article very carefully didn't name the 'major supermarket chain' supposed to be the source of the cryptosporidium outbreak.
And used the words 'associated with' rather than 'caused'.
Where would we be without journalists to deliver our daily dose of depression and anxiety?
I always wash pre-washed salad. I don't fancy the disinfectant the supermarket has 'washed' it in.

This, of course, from Prof Hugh Pennington - who told us washing up bowls can damage our health.

now we have to add bagged salad to the list of no-no's