Lettuce ( Lactuca sativus )
“If you eat the more bitter-tasting lettuces you are not only getting better nutrition generally, you are also stimulating your digestion.”
Lettuce first appeared near the Mediterranean basin more than 4000 years ago. Initially it was probably just regarded as a nuisance weed, but it wasn’t long before it was appreciated as a food and a medicine. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine,
