Green curly lettuce on a bed in the garden. for cooking delicious natural green cold snacks and serving hot dishes. Fresh salad garden on the raised garden bed. Rowns of Fancy Lettuce in a cottage garden. Small garden vegetable bed and yellow pest control table in the summertime. Lettuce Lactuca sativa is an annual plant of the family of compound flowers. Most often it is grown as a leafy vegetable, but sometimes because of the stem and seeds. Lettuce is most often used to make salads, although it can be used in other dishes such as soups, sandwiches and wraps; it can also be grilled. One variety, celery asparagus salad, is grown because of its stems, which are eaten either raw or boiled. In addition to its primary use as leafy greens, it has also acquired religious and medical significance over centuries of human consumption. Initially, the salad market was dominated by Europe and North America, but by the end of the 20th century, the consumption of lettuce spread around the world. As of 2017, the global production of lettuce and chicory amounted to 27 million tons, 56 percent of which came from China.
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