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Iceberg salad with olive oil

Iceberg Salad with Olive Oil

For anyone who's gone to war with the pounds, this salad is a must! Iceberg salad is a classic diet recipe. It's just the thing to eat while you're working to shed those extra pounds. By the way, you'll find it in some modern weight-loss meal plans, since its calorie count is about as low as it gets.

Milada

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Iceberg lettuce

0.5

Lemons

Sea salt

Olive oil

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 9 % 1 g

Fats 73 % 8 g

Carbohydrates 18 % 2 g

81 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 5 min

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This iceberg salad with olive oil will be a real find for lovers of tasty, light, and healthy food. You can eat it on any diet without a second thought. As the name suggests, the dish is built around iceberg lettuce (also called "Ice Mountain"). It's something between tender cabbage and lettuce leaves, though closer to the latter. It's sweet, very good for you, and has a surprisingly small number of calories. Because of its high folic acid content, doctors recommend it for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children. Since lettuce leaves oxidize very quickly on contact with metal, try not to cut it but to tear it into small pieces by hand. By the way, this salad keeps very well in the fridge (I mean both the finished dish and the vegetable itself). In short, tear the lettuce leaves with clean hands, then sprinkle them with lemon juice, drizzle with olive oil, and season with sea salt. That's all — the salad is that quick and easy to make. A great addition to breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
It's important to realize that there are no recipes or foods that are unconditionally good for everyone or unconditionally bad for everyone. As with medicines, nutrition has its indications and contraindications and individual daily intake limits, and for most people all of this is highly personalized. Meanwhile, there are plenty of myths "about healthy eating" (for example: fat is bad) that distort the very essence of the concept and, in that distorted form, spread across the internet and the media. So remember that any "healthy-eating recipe" relates to healthy eating only loosely; don't take it as gospel. And even if the recipe's author — a "healthy-eating expert," nutritionist, or fitness trainer — calls something healthy or unhealthy, it may not be so for you personally. The site administration's view of healthy eating may differ from the recipe author's!