Iceberg lettuce gets some nutritious bulking up

You’d never know it by taking a head count at the supermarket, but iceberg lettuce is losing favor with consumers looking for more flavor and nutrition from their salad greens. Iceberg has been contemptuously called the “polyester of all the lettuce types,” and critics claim it has about as much dietary value as sticking a blade of grass between your teeth.

By: By Dean Fosdick, The Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun