lettuce
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Over the course of the season, UK growers produce around half a billion heads of lettuce.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The CDC declared the outbreak over; the FDA, meanwhile, is still trying to determine exactly how the lettuce became contaminated.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Taco Bell did not have to determine how a microscopic parasite entered an international lettuce supply chain.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Officials have linked the outbreak, which affected 21 states, to lettuce imported from Mexico by Taylor Farms, a key supplier for many US food outlets.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
If his face was a supernova before, it became an accretion disc—one of the brightest objects in the universe—as soon as he tasted his lettuce.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Millions of lettuces are set to be wasted as farmers are grappling with a record outbreak of aphids that has devastated the end of their growing season.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Nowadays in the early mornings, farmers — many of them descendants of Xochimilco’s original inhabitants — can be seen loading canoes with lettuces and flowers grown in the rich sediments dredged from the canals.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
These include herbs, lettuces, cucumbers, zucchinis, silverbeets, peas, beans and tomatoes.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
I always have a ton of bell peppers, chiles and lettuces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Liyana could see the old man, Abu Hamra, pushing his cart of lettuces and cabbages up to the crossroads where he sat with it.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
