Ingredients associated with "Lettuce allergy":

These are the ingredients that we have associated with the lettuce allergen. If lettuce is selected in your user profile, recipes with the ingredients below will be marked as risky while searching for recipes to suit your allergy diet.


  • Butterhead lettuce - lettuce with loose heads and a buttery texture; most popular in Europe
  • Chinese lettuce - lettuce with long, sword-shaped leaves, and a bitter/robust flavour unlike Western types; commonly used in stir fry and stews
  • Iceberg lettuce - salad green grown in tight round heads, generally mildest of the lettuces and valued for their crunchy texture
  • Lettuce - a cultivated plant occurring in many varieties and having succulent leaves used for salads
  • Looseleaf lettuce - lettuce with tender, delicate, and mildly flavored leaves; comprises the oak leaf and lollo rosso varieties
  • Romaine - aka romaine lettuce, a variety of lettuce having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves
  • Romaine lettuce - aka romaine, a variety of lettuce having a cylindrical head of long, relatively loose leaves
  • Summer crisp lettuce - lettuce with moderately dense heads with a crunchy texture; intermediate between iceberg and looseleaf types

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