Lettuce is lettuce. Lettuce pronunciation wō jù, lettuce wō sǔn.

Lettuce is also known as lettuce, is the daisy family, lettuce genus annual or biennial herbs. It is 25-100 centimeters tall, with erect, solitary stems, basal and lower stem leaves large, undivided, oblanceolate, elliptic, or elliptic-oblanceolate, with acute, shortly acuminate, or rounded tips, sessile, and leaves on the lower panicle branches and on the upper panicle branches very small, ovate-cordate, and sessile.

This species is native to the Mediterranean coast and is cultivated throughout China. It is a cold-hardy vegetable, preferring cooler climates and not tolerating high temperatures. Like moist. And the need for fertilizer is large, suitable for growth in organic matter, water retention and fertilization of clay loam or loamy soil, reproduction mode for seeding. Cultivated varieties of lettuce, lettuce, curly lettuce.

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Lettuca lettuce is also known by other names, such as: chicory, stonewort, green shoots, and bamboo shoots.

Lettuce contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, has the role of regulating the function of the nervous system, which contains organic chemical content is rich in human body can be absorbed in iron, iron deficiency anemia patients are very beneficial. The hot water extract of lettuce has a high inhibition rate for some cancer cells, so it can be used to prevent and fight cancer.

Lettuce is rich in vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, dietary fiber and other ingredients. The more niacin, which is considered to be the activator of insulin, diabetics appropriate consumption, help to improve the function of sugar metabolism. Reference: