iceberg gets a bad rap because normally people eat about 20 calories worth with 150 empty calories in the form of dressing. Iceberg actually has a pretty good fiber to calorie ratio. For that matter about 40% of the calories in iceberg is protein. And it has a decent vitamin A to calorie ratio as well.

If you want iceberg as part of a healthy meal, increase the quantity of iceberg, and make the "dressing" something healthy (not neccesarily low calorie, just non-empty calories). For example 8 oz of iceberg is not at all a bad basis for a taco salad, depending on other ingredients. But if it would be a healthy meal without the lettuce, it will be even healthier with 8 oz of shredded iceberg.

That's interesting...I didn't know.(And sometimes people serve it with one leaf in the grave, too.)

8 oz is a lot of iceberg. But I've always liked it, because it's so cold and refreshing and crunchy. It gets a bad rap.

Nothing is like the texture of iceberg. It's wonderful.

When I was a kid I thought I didn't like salad. It wasn't until I tried some mesclun that I discovered that actually, I just didn't like iceberg. I'll eat if if it's on a taco or burger or something like that, but in a salad, I like other greens (except arugula) much better.

For me it depends on what it is combined with. Maybe because we used a lot of different lettuces as a kid I never hated iceberg. For tostada or taco salad I like either shredded green cabbage or shredded iceberg - ideally with nopales.

Hil is me wrt iceberg, except I cannot even stand it on tacos etc.

Arugula pesto is good, but I agree that it's too bitter for me raw.

More food in this thread? I'm...a salad philestine. Dressing is such the fat and calorie trap I gave it up long ago. I have twothree salads: 1. the Caesar, with dressing on the side so I can halve it with water and apply myself, and grilled chicken breast strips. 2. The dinner, with a base of dark greens and purple cabbage, chopped chicken and/or ham (depending whether or not I can smell the nitrites), shredded cheddar, shredded mozzie, chickpeas, shredded carrot, chopped egg, mushrooms, coarse black pepper, and a drift of balsamic vinegar--raspberry if they have it, no more than a single tablespoon or less of any ingredient except the greens. 3. Iceberg? I don't waste time and effort shredding and chopping and putting it on a plate and eating it with a fork. I take a wedge or just five or six whole leaves and eat them plain, out of hand.

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