Lamb’s lettuce originally comes from Europe. It is a delicious choice for salads and combines nicely with a wide variety of ingredients. It is often used to add texture to green salads.
General information:
From Wikipedia: “Valerianella locusta is a small annual plant that is eaten as a leaf vegetable. It has a characteristic nutty flavor, dark green color, and soft texture, and is popularly served as salad greens. Common names include corn salad, common cornsalad, lamb's lettuce, mâche, fetticus, feldsalat, nut lettuce, field salad, and rapunzel. In restaurants that feature French cooking, it may be called doucette or raiponce, as an alternative to mâche, by which it is best known. In German-speaking Switzerland it is known as Nüsslisalat or Nüssler, terms that have been borrowed by the area's many English-speakers.”
Description:
“Corn salad grows in a low rosette with spatulate leaves up to 15.2 cm long. It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green.
In warm conditions it tends to bolt to seed, producing much-branched stems with clusters (cymes) of flowers. The flowers have a bluish-white corolla of five fused petals, 1.5 to 2 mm (0.06 to 0.08 in) long and wide, and three stamens. Underneath the flowers is a whorl of bracts. Fertilized flowers produce achenes with 2 sterile chambers and one fertile chamber.”
Distribution and habitat:
“Corn salad grows wild in parts of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia. In Europe and Asia it is a common weed in cultivated land and waste spaces. In North America it has escaped cultivation and become naturalized on both the eastern and western seaboards.
As a cultivated crop, it is a specialty of the region around Nantes, France, which is the primary producer of mâche in Europe.”
Nutrition:
“Like other formerly foraged greens, corn salad has many nutrients, including three times as much vitamin C as lettuce, beta-carotene, B6, iron, and potassium. It is best if gathered before flowers appear.”
Culinary uses:
“In its cultivated form, lamb’s lettuce is eaten as a green leafy salad. It has a strong flavor and some varieties have a taste that are reminiscent of hazelnut.*”
Note (italics): * = Translation from a German Wikipedia article
Nutrient tables
The complete nutritional information, coverage of the daily requirement and comparison values with other ingredients can be found in the following nutrient tables.
Nutritional Information
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per 100g |
2000 kcal The numbers show the percent of the recommended daily value for a person who consumes 2000 cal per day. This number is for one serving of the recipe. A person normally eats multiple times a day and consumes additional nutrients. You can get all of the nutrients you need over a longer period of time and in this way ensure a healthy balance. |
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Energy | 21 kcal 88 kJ | 1.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the GDA: 2000kcal | |
Fat/Lipids | 0.40 g | 0.6% Recommended daily allowance according to the GDA: 70g | |
Saturated Fats | n/a | ||
Carbohydrates (inc.dietary fiber) | 3.6 g | 1.3% Recommended daily allowance according to the GDA: 270g | |
Sugars | n/a | ||
Fiber | n/a | ||
Protein/Albumin | 2.0 g | 4.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the GDA: 50g | |
Cooking Salt (Na:4.0 mg) | 10 mg | 0.4% Recommended daily allowance according to the GDA: 2.4g |
Essential micronutrients with the highest proportions | per 100g | 2000 kcal | |
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Vit | Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) | 38 mg | 48.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 80 mg |
Vit | Vitamin A, as RAE | 355 µg | 44.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 800 µg |
Elem | Potassium, K | 459 mg | 23.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 2'000 mg |
Vit | Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) | 0.27 mg | 20.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 1.4 mg |
Min | Manganese, Mn | 0.36 mg | 18.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 2.0 mg |
Min | Iron, Fe | 2.2 mg | 16.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 14 mg |
Min | Copper, Cu | 0.13 mg | 13.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 1.0 mg |
Prot | Tryptophan (Trp, W) | 0.03 g | 10.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 0.25 g |
Prot | Threonine (Thr, T) | 0.08 g | 8.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 0.93 g |
Prot | Isoleucine (Ile, I) | 0.10 g | 8.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 1.2 g |
Detailed micronutrients and daily requirement coverage per 100g
Explanations of nutrient tables in general
The majority of the nutritional information comes from the USDA (US Department of Agriculture). This means that the information for natural products is often incomplete or only given within broader categories, whereas in most cases products made from these have more complete information displayed.
If we take flaxseed, for example, the important essential amino acid ALA (omega-3) is only included in an overarching category whereas for flaxseed oil ALA is listed specifically. In time, we will be able to change this, but it will require a lot of work. An “i” appears behind ingredients that have been adjusted and an explanation appears when you hover over this symbol.
For Erb Muesli, the original calculations resulted in 48 % of the daily requirement of ALA — but with the correction, we see that the muesli actually covers >100 % of the necessary recommendation for the omega-3 fatty acid ALA. Our goal is to eventually be able to compare the nutritional value of our recipes with those that are used in conventional western lifestyles.
Essential amino acids | per 100g |
2000 kcal The numbers show the percent of the recommended daily value for a person who consumes 2000 cal per day. This number is for one serving of the recipe. A person normally eats multiple times a day and consumes additional nutrients. You can get all of the nutrients you need over a longer period of time and in this way ensure a healthy balance. |
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Tryptophan (Trp, W) | 0.03 g | 10.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 0.25 g |
Threonine (Thr, T) | 0.08 g | 8.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 0.93 g |
Isoleucine (Ile, I) | 0.10 g | 8.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 1.2 g |
Leucine (Leu, L) | 0.13 g | 6.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 2.4 g |
Phenylalanine (Phe, F) | 0.09 g | 6.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 1.6 g |
Valine (Val, V) | 0.10 g | 6.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 1.6 g |
Lysine (Lys, K) | 0.10 g | 5.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 1.9 g |
Methionine (Met, M) | 0.02 g | 3.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the WHO-Protein-2002: 0.93 g |
Vitamins | per 100g |
2000 kcal The numbers show the percent of the recommended daily value for a person who consumes 2000 cal per day. This number is for one serving of the recipe. A person normally eats multiple times a day and consumes additional nutrients. You can get all of the nutrients you need over a longer period of time and in this way ensure a healthy balance. |
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Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) | 38 mg | 48.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 80 mg |
Vitamin A, as RAE | 355 µg | 44.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 800 µg |
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) | 0.27 mg | 20.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 1.4 mg |
Folate, as the active form of folic acid (née vitamin B9 and | 14 µg | 7.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 200 µg |
Thiamine (vitamin B1) | 0.07 mg | 6.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 1.1 mg |
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) | 0.09 mg | 6.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 1.4 mg |
Niacin (née vitamin B3) | 0.42 mg | 3.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 16 mg |
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) | 0.04 mg | 1.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 6.0 mg |
Vitamin D | 0 µg | < 0.1% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 5.0 µg |
Essential macroelements (macronutrients) | per 100g |
2000 kcal The numbers show the percent of the recommended daily value for a person who consumes 2000 cal per day. This number is for one serving of the recipe. A person normally eats multiple times a day and consumes additional nutrients. You can get all of the nutrients you need over a longer period of time and in this way ensure a healthy balance. |
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Potassium, K | 459 mg | 23.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 2'000 mg |
Phosphorus, P | 53 mg | 8.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 700 mg |
Calcium, Ca | 38 mg | 5.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 800 mg |
Magnesium, Mg | 13 mg | 3.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 375 mg |
Sodium, Na | 4.0 mg | 1.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 800 mg |
Essential trace elements (micronutrients) | per 100g |
2000 kcal The numbers show the percent of the recommended daily value for a person who consumes 2000 cal per day. This number is for one serving of the recipe. A person normally eats multiple times a day and consumes additional nutrients. You can get all of the nutrients you need over a longer period of time and in this way ensure a healthy balance. |
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Manganese, Mn | 0.36 mg | 18.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 2.0 mg |
Iron, Fe | 2.2 mg | 16.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 14 mg |
Copper, Cu | 0.13 mg | 13.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 1.0 mg |
Zinc, Zn | 0.59 mg | 6.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 10 mg |
Selenium, Se | 0.90 µg | 2.0% Recommended daily allowance according to the EU: LMIV-2011: 55 µg |
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