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- Store salad - the best tips for different varieties
- Important points for the storage of salad
- Tips
- Keep different types of lettuce properly
- Finished (welded) mixed salad
- iceberg lettuce
- lettuce
- romaine lettuce
- Tips
- Lamb's lettuce
Salad is best left fresh if supplied with some water
Store salad - the best tips for different varieties
Lettuce contains many valuable vitamins and minerals. In order to waste them just as little as the crunchiness and the good taste of the green leaves, proper storage is essential. We'll show you how to store salad properly.
Important points for the storage of salad
In principle, keep salad only in the fridge, preferably in the vegetable compartment. There he feels most comfortable. You should not wash your lettuce before storage. But: Withered leaves are to be removed in advance - so extend the shelf life of the salad.
Already when buying it is recommended to look exactly. Purchase - if possible - salads with hard leaves, because: The harder the leaves are, the longer the salad stays crisp in the fridge.
And another note: salad should not be in the supermarket next to ripening vegetables and fruits such as tomatoes, avocados, mangoes, bananas or apples. The produced by these maturing gas ethylene causes the salad yellowing, brown rusty stains and wilted leaves.
Important: It is also important to keep salad away from such vegetables and fruits during storage - otherwise it spoils much faster.
Tips
You can actively protect the lettuce from drying out by breaking the leaves into a moist cloth drizzled with vinegar or lemon. Good alternatives are also perforated foil bags.
Attention: Never use tightly closed plastic containers. These threaten to choke the salad, because the moisture can not escape. This creates a good breeding ground for microorganisms, which lead to the rapid spoilage of the salad.
Already washed lettuce leaves can either be dripping wet or spun gently into a plastic box and stored in the fridge for a few days.
Keep different types of lettuce properly
Finished (welded) mixed salad
The large surface and the many cutting surfaces make ready mixed salads a real bacteria magnet. In short, welded ready salads are extremely sensitive. Our advice regarding storage (and consumption):
iceberg lettuce
Iceberg lettuce is made up of strong leaves that are less sensitive. We recommend the following:
So the salad stays fresh for several days. The same applies to Romana, chicory and frillice.
lettuce
For lettuce, the optimal storage looks like this:
romaine lettuce
Romaine lettuce and radicchio last well for a week, if stored properly:
Tips
Lollo Rosso will keep you that way, too. He only stays fresh for about three to four days.
Lamb's lettuce
Corn salad should not be stored, but always prepared on the same day. He falls very fast and is not very tasty after a short time.