The Shocking Way Your Lettuce Might Be Getting Contaminated

Scitech Daily ^ | July 29, 2025 | Cornell University

[Red Badger]

Solution: Don't eat lettuce.....................

[frithguild]

Lettuce is garbage food. Mostly water and very little nutrition. What little it has can be gained from other food sources which are far more dense in nutritional value.

[Red Badger]

Lettuce is just a filler for the the salad bowl before you get the steak and baked potato!.............

[Jamestown1630]

I was expecting tips on how to treat it once we’ve bought it in the grocery store...

[blackdog]

"I'm sorry, I think you're confused. This is the food my food eats"

-Ron Swanson.

[Red Badger]

“...tips on how to treat it once we’ve bought it in the grocery store...”

Don’t...............

[Red Badger]

[Carry_Okie]

“While not the most common system, spray irrigation is used in a number of fields for its benefits during germination, its cooling effect on plants, and other reasons.

Yeah, like seedling survival and growth, you know, things that matter to farmers.

Sheesh.

[blackdog]

https://youtube.com/shorts/WpkemCFGgdc?si=NL660W9ORGy2BuIL

[Jamestown1630]

I like lettuce; and depending on the type, it can be very healthful;

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/benefits-of-lettuce

[PGR88]

If one generally looks at FDA recalls and “consumer protection” efforts, all the publicity and heat is generated around green leafy vegetables.

Given the amount of government risk involved in being a grower/seller of these things, they ought to cost about $30 per lb

Meanwhile, you will almost never see an FDA recall on drugs, vaccines, approved ingredients.

[woodbutcher1963]

I have been buying all our lettuce from Brightfarms for the last several years. It originally was called Lef Farms.
This is lettuce grow completely indoors and untouched from seed to packaging.
Which means no illegals going #2 in the field.

https://www.brightfarms.com/

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I eat spinach if I want salad.

[blackdog]

We plant leaf lettuce, chard, mustard, and kale around our back yard koi pond-fountain. I use the pond water to water the greens. I run the air conditioning condensate line into the fish pond as the make-up water source. My wife hand picks what we need at dinner time. The fish poo feeds the plants. A perfect system.

In the winter we keep a greenhouse cold frame over the pond and garden, using a light bulb on a thermostat. The bulb turns on when temp drops below 50, and off at 60. Perfect growing conditions for greens.

[Nervous Tick]

>> E. coli in lettuce... study highlights irrigation water, especially untreated surface water applied through spray systems, as a key culprit...

No sh!t?!

[Nervous Tick]

>> Which means no illegals going #2 in the field.

THEY WOULDN’T DO THAT!!! ...would they?? 🤣

[Jamestown1630]

My grocer doesn’t carry that, but they carry ‘Little Leaf Farms’, which appears to be grown the same way.

http://www.littleleaffarms.com

[Nea Wood]

Thank you for that tip. It’s disgusting that we have to worry about illegal aliens crapping on our food.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

There have been articles for decades about dirty or contaminated lettuce.

[Jamestown1630]

Legal farm workers probably do it too; and probably always have.