Lettuce vegetable - Delicious vegetables for meals

in hive-109286 •  3 years ago  (edited)

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Righ now, I am showing you a photoshot of Lettuce ☘ that I recently took in my garden. I love this kind of vegetables as well.

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Lettuce belongs to the herbaceous group, perennial, about 20 - 40 cm high. Lettuce rhizomes grow underground. Lettuce has pale yellow flowers and staggered, dark green, heart-shaped leaves. Lettuce leaves, when crushed, have a slightly fishy smell like fish.

In Vietnam, in the past, lettuce was grown wild in mountainous, midland and plain provinces. Later, lettuce was brought to the garden to be used as food as well as medicine to improve health conditions.

All parts of lettuce contain essential oils. Compounds in this essential oil are mainly aldehydes and ketone derivatives such as methynol ketone, ... and 3-oxodocecanal with antibiotic-like effects to help fight bacteria. when isolated from the leaves of lettuce, also obtained compounds such as beta sitosterol and flavonoids such as quercitrin, rutin, isoquercitrin...


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Categorylettuce, garden, self growth vegetable, plants
Deviceiphone 7
Photo Editor AppOriginal - unedited
Locationin my garden, Viet Nam, Asia country
Photographer@dailystockphotos

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