lettuce
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The government previously identified, external that "nutrients from outside the bay, run-off from streams that contain fertiliser and treated waste water from the water treatment works' all normally contribute to the growth of sea lettuce".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Taylor Farms used the revision to push back on the idea that its lettuce had been definitively identified as the source; federal officials, though, maintained that the broader epidemiological and traceback evidence still pointed there.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Food and Drug administration traced an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasite-born intestinal disease, to contaminated lettuce grown in Mexico by Salinas-based Taylor Fresh Foods that made its way to Taco Bell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The food-safety issues have included the nation’s largest-ever cyclospora outbreak, which was linked to shredded iceberg lettuce.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Sohrab squeezed my shoulder as he inhaled another piece of lettuce.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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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
I always have a ton of bell peppers, chiles and lettuces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
This is the salad that the dressing needs to be properly so it's legitimately dispersed amongst the lettuces and croutons.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
We grow vegetables and fruit because it’s such a pleasure to step outside and clip lettuces or pluck plums.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
I was going out for lettuces that morning and for some reason or other I’d decided to go alone.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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