lettuce
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About three-fourths of the water that’s taken out is used for agriculture, growing alfalfa for cattle as well as lettuce, broccoli and other crops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Taylor Farms used the revision to push back on the idea that its lettuce had been definitively identified as the source; federal officials, though, maintained that the broader epidemiological and traceback evidence still pointed there.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The food-safety issues have included the nation’s largest-ever cyclospora outbreak, which was linked to shredded iceberg lettuce.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Taylor Farms was already under scrutiny after it recently recalled its iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico because of the unusually large cyclosporiasis outbreak.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
He tore off a tiny piece of lettuce and pushed it through the wires of my cage.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
Nowadays in the early mornings, farmers — many of them descendants of Xochimilco’s original inhabitants — can be seen loading canoes with lettuces and flowers grown in the rich sediments dredged from the canals.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
I always have a ton of bell peppers, chiles and lettuces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Also, please dry your lettuces throughly and completely!
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
We grow vegetables and fruit because it’s such a pleasure to step outside and clip lettuces or pluck plums.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
In the dimness he can make out roses, leeks, lettuces.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
