Is lettuce leaf oilseed rape?

When people buy green vegetables, they can't tell the difference between oil wheat and lettuce leaves. Many people will make mistakes and think that oil wheat vegetables and lettuce leaves are the same kind of vegetables. So is lettuce leaf oilseed rape? Let's take a look at it with the editor.

1. Lettuce leaves and rape are not the same thing. Rape is a variety of lettuce leaves. Rape is a kind of green leafy vegetable which is popular in the market in recent years. Its leaves are slender and spreading, and its fleshy stems are thin and short. From the perspective of blood relationship, rapeseed belongs to a variety of leaf lettuce-long-leaf lettuce, which is similar to the familiar lettuce, so it is also known as Niu Li lettuce.

2. The leaf shape of rape is very different from that of lettuce. The leaf surface of rape is smooth, showing a long lanceolate shape, while the lettuce leaf surface is uneven, showing an oblanceolate, oval or oval oblanceolate, tip acute, short acuminate or round.

3. Rapeseed tastes better than lettuce leaves, crisp and refreshing, and contains a lot of dietary fiber and water. Although the taste of lettuce is not as good as that of oilwheat, it has high nutritional value and a lot of carotene.

Although the leaves of rape and lettuce belong to the same kind of Compositae, both belong to a kind of lettuce, but the leaves of rape and lettuce do not belong to the same ingredient, and there is a certain gap between them in terms of appearance and nutritional value. so you need to pay attention to it when you buy it.