La lettuce It is one of the key foods when it comes to making a delicious salad. And it is that, although there are multiple alternatives to replace it as canons or endives, people continue to trust her. But what if it is not as good as it is claimed? Do you know if it has contraindications and what are they? Today we tell you the whole truth about lettuce because it is surrounded by statements or myths that we will try to explain below.
The myths surrounding lettuce
Lettuce is associated with a healthy diet or weight loss due to its low calorie level and high water content. In addition to being a product suitable for all types of food. As you already know, it is used above all to create salads, but it is also added in hamburgers, it is used as a complement in elaborate dishes ...
As with the vast majority of foods, if you eat too much lettuce frequently it can cause damage. This cannot be considered even a contraindication, but there are some others characteristics or properties of this food that can create doubts as to whether or not it can be harmful to your body.
Is it dangerous to eat lettuce at night?
One of the main myths surrounding lettuce is that taking it by the night in salad it is harmful. This, obviously, is closely related to the foods with which it is combined, but lettuce at night is usually not bad. In fact, it is a great option for dinner, since it is light and helps our hormonal system to better metabolize food. Of course, as long as it is a coherent, varied and balanced salad. Tomato, cheese, chicken or tuna they are protein foods and perfect to add.
On the other hand, a tablespoon of olive oil has 120 kilocalories and together with the sauces, such as Caesar, are the foods that can make us fatter the most. For this reason it is better to use extra virgin olive oil or, if you can, avoid the sauces directly. Likewise, it is important that you control the amount of shawl that you add to your salad, since an excessive consumption of this can increase blood pressure too much and a very high blood pressure it can contribute to heart or brain strokes and heart failure.
Weight gain, the whole truth about lettuce
Another of the theories that exist regarding this delicious horticultural plant is that fattening. This myth is even easier to disprove and is that lettuce is 90% water. Therefore, instead of helping to gain weight, it helps us to eliminate fluids and even lose weight, and it also gives us potassium, fiber, and folic acid. It is also a vegetable with high antioxidant capacity.
This vegetable has also been related to the appearance of gases, due to its contribution of fiber. But it is also somewhat false, since with a salad of 100 g of lettuce, we will ingest 1,5 g of fiber, of which only 0,45 g is soluble; And the statistics suggest that we do not even reach the recommended daily intake of fiber, which should be 25-30 g of fiber.
Finally, another of the doubts that lettuce or, in this case, a salad, is that it is a sufficient meal or if it falls short as a single dish. In this case, it depends on the size of the salad and again, on the products from which it is made or with which it is dressed. It is advisable to introduce protein foods like tuna, cheese or chicken, or even pasta or rice, to complete your protein intake and your daily nutrition. In the same way you can add healthy seeds, a product that is very fashionable and that can provide us, among other things, Omega 3 and fiber.
We hope to have resolved your doubts, to have dismantled these myths and that now you really know the whole truth about lettuce. A vegetable that is completely good for health and that also provides us with multiple benefits, whether taken at the time of day it is taken. What do you think about this plant? Did you know about its qualities? Have we denied any belief?
