Benefits of rootball-lettuce

Root-ball lettuce: prolonged shelf-life and sustainably produced

Deliscious produces root-ball lettuce: heads of lettuce with the root ball still attached and preserved until the lettuce is consumed. This enables root-ball lettuce to exceed the traditional head of lettuce in terms of freshness, shelf-life and sustainability. Root-ball lettuce is already sold in almost every supermarket in the Netherlands.

For the consumer root-ball lettuce offers a number of important, instantly recognizable benefits, as opposed to a traditional head of lettuce.

Long shelf-life and fresh taste:

• Root-ball lettuce remains fresh up to a week longer.
• Because the root ball is preserved, the lettuce is tastier and crispier.
• Salanova root-ball lettuce contains approximately three times as many leafs, compared to a regular head of lettuce.

Easy to use:

• In one simple motion, Salanova root-ball lettuce can be divided into a large number of equally sized leafs.
• Root-ball lettuce can also be kept outside of the refrigerator, due to its prolonged shelf-life. However, it is best to keep it in a cool spot.

Sustainable:

• Root-ball lettuce is less vulnerable to diseases and plagues, because its root ball is preserved. As a result, a limited amount of pest management resources are necessary.
• Root-ball lettuce requires less energy for heating, because the plants grow in gutters above the ground.
• The gutters form a closed system, which ensures the water is always purified and subsequently reused.

Deliscious offers the following variants of root-ball lettuce: Salanova and Salatrio.