Organic Baby Salad

Mix of organic young leaves: lettuce, spinach, lamb's lettuce, mizuna, rocket and other seasonal varieties

Tender, crunchy and colorful leaves, picked young when the flavor is most delicate: salad ready for every day

Organic Baby Salad: Authenticity and Artisan Flavor

The Organic Baby Salad it's a mix of young leaves, collected when they are still small and tender: it is in this phase that the leaves are more crunchy, delicate and full of flavour, without the hard, fibrous parts of adult plants. The mix changes with the season and the harvest, and can include lettuce green and red, baby spinach, lamb's lettuce (the “songino”), mizuna, rocket salad and other varieties: each package is a little surprise of colors, shapes and flavors.

Each leaf brings its own character: the sweetness of baby lettuce, the softness of baby spinach, the nutty flavor of lamb's lettuce, the spicy and slightly peppery note of mizuna and arugula. Together, they form a balanced and complete salad, grown in organically grown products, ready to be seasoned with a drizzle of oil and used as a base for fresh, light and quick dishes.
 
 
 

The roots of this salad are deep in tradition

The idea of ​​mixing many different leaves is very ancient and entirely Italian. In the countryside of Rome and Lazio, the mixed saladA mix of wild and cultivated herbs, gathered in the fields and along ditches, which varied with the seasons. It is said that the Franciscan friars of the Aracoeli convent, on the Capitoline Hill, distributed these mixed salads of garden herbs to the poor, and that the faithful received them as gifts and signs of good luck.

The individual leaves of the mix then have stories from all over the world: the mizuna It is a Japanese cabbage, grown for centuries in the countryside of Kyoto, with jagged leaves and a slightly peppery flavour; lamb's lettuce, also called “lattughella” or “songino”, was the salad of European farmers in winter, because it grows even in the cold months; rocket salad It was already beloved by the Romans, who mixed it with lettuce. Baby salad is the modern version of this tradition: a mix of different leaves, picked at their peak.
 
 
 

Choosing Organic Baby Salad means taking care of yourself

Young leaves are among the lightest and most nutrient-rich foods: very few calories, lots of water and a great variety of vitamins e minerals. Baby spinach and lamb's lettuce bring folate, iron, and vitamin K; arugula and mizuna, which belong to the cabbage family, contain glucosinolates, protective compounds studied for their beneficial properties; the colorful leaves of red lettuce are rich in antioxidant anthocyanins.

Eating a mix of varieties means broadening the range of nutrients on your plate, and fibers The leaves contribute to intestinal well-being and a sense of satiety. Cultivation Biological, without synthetic pesticides, has an even more important value for a product that is eaten raw and with the whole leaf.
 
 
 

How to Best Use: Organic Baby Salad

Product ready to season and enjoy, below are some more elaborate variations

• WINTER SALAD WITH CITRUS FRUITS AND RADISHES: season the salad with peeled wedges of Organic Tarocco Oranges and Organic Pink Grapefruit, thin washers of Turnip Kobi and a handful of Organic Flax SeedsOil, salt, and a little citrus juice: fresh, crunchy, and colorful.
• NASHI PEAR, KIWI, AND APPLE CREAM SALAD: add slices of to the salad Pear Apple Nashi, crunchy and juicy, and cubes of Organic Yellow Kiwi, and season with oil and a few drops of Organic Apple Cream: a sweet and acidic contrast that enhances the peppery notes of arugula and mizuna.
• PROTEIN SALAD WITH LENTILS AND ALMONDS: mix the salad with the Organic Lentils from Val d'Orcia cooked and cooled and the Organic Shelled Almonds Toasted and chopped: a complete and filling vegetable-based dish, perfect for lunch.

Food container

Baby lettuce is a fresh and delicate product: store it in the refrigerator, in the crisper drawer, between 2 and 6°C, and consume within a few days of purchase. Wash it thoroughly before eating and dry it well, seasoning it only just before serving to keep the leaves crunchy.
 
 
 

Ingredients

Mix of organic young leaves (lettuce, spinach, lamb's lettuce, mizuna, arugula and other varieties depending on the season and availability).
 
 
 

Nutritional Values ​​(average values ​​per 100g of product)

• Energy: 80 kJ / 19 kcal
• Fat: 0,3 g, of which saturated fatty acids 0 g
• Carbohydrates: 2 g, of which sugars 1 g
• Fiber: 1,8 gr
• Protein: 1,8 gr
• Sale: 0,05 gr

Indicative average values ​​for a mix of leafy salads.
 
 
 

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