Butterhead Lettuce
Nutrition & Calories
Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites
Low in Calories, Great Food Choice for Dieters
Dieting? How about a delicious salad mix of chopped tomatoes, chopped onion, sliced cucumber and butterhead lettuce?
The lettuce is very minimal in calories. How many? Let's see...
One cup of raw, shredded Butterhead Lettuce contains about 7 calories.
Low Calorie Butterhead Lettuce Recipes & Weight Loss Tips: Whether it's spring, summer, winter or fall - any time of the year is a great time to incorporate butterhead lettuce into your weight loss plan. At seven skinny calories per cup of raw, shredded butterhead lettuce - it can be enjoyed freely.
A dieter would have to eat over fourteen cups of butterhead lettuce to exceed 100 calories!That's a lot of butterhead lettuce.
Weight Loss & Dieting Tip #1 - Salad time.
The most challenging case of 'the hungries' tends to arrive a couple of hours after dinner (or supper if you live in the South).
When food is consumed in the late evening hours it's almost impossible - or difficult at best to burn the calories off before retiring for the night.
Keep in mind that even calories from low calorie foods are stored in the fat cells when they exceed the number of calories used by the body. Because butterhead lettuce is so low in calories, preparing a salad mix of the following can keep calories and fat grams under your control so you can move forward to lose the unwanted weight:
4 cups of shredded butterhead lettuce, a few cherry tomatoes - or a few chunks or slices of your favorite tomato, cucumber slices, chopped celery and balsamic vinegar. Be sure to select balsamic vinegar which contains a scant 5 calories per serving.
Weight Loss & Dieting Tip #2 - Wraps.
There is a reason why carb diets are so popular; carbs tend to hold water and water in the body weighs heavily. So substituting lettuce of any variety can assist in cutting calories as well as cutting carb grams while maintaining the flavor in the daily diet plan.
When it comes to hamburgers, cheeseburgers, cheese steak, or any foods that you might enjoy with bread - wrap the foods in lettuce and enjoy.
Weight Loss & Dieting Tip #3 - Butterhead Lettuce for bulk and texture.
Try adding chopped or shredded butterhead lettuce to recipes - those in which lettuce will compliment the dish. Add butterhead lettuce to tacos; try topping enchiladas with a nice stack of shredded butterhead lettuce; or add butterhead lettuce to your favorite cabbage slaw recipe.
Butterhead lettuce is also a source of dietary fiber which can assist in keeping the digestive system in healthy working order.
Butterhead Lettuce Calories, Nutrition Facts
|
Energy, Vitamins, Minerals |
Unit Measures |
1 cup, chopped |
1 head, 5" in diameter |
1 large leaf |
1 medium leaf |
1 small leaf |
|
Calcium, Ca |
mg
|
19 |
57 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
|
Calories |
kcal
|
7 |
21 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
Carbohydrate |
g
|
1.23 |
3.63 |
0.33 |
0.17 |
0.11 |
|
Cholesterol |
mg
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated |
g
|
0.004 |
0.013 |
0.001 |
0.001 |
0.000 |
|
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated |
g
|
0.064 |
0.191 |
0.018 |
0.009 |
0.006 |
|
Fatty acids, total saturated |
g
|
0.016 |
0.047 |
0.004 |
0.002 |
0.001 |
|
Fiber, total dietary |
g
|
0.6 |
1.8 |
0.2 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
|
Potassium, K |
mg
|
131 |
388 |
36 |
18 |
12 |
|
Protein |
g
|
0.74 |
2.20 |
0.20 |
0.10 |
0.07 |
|
Sodium, Na |
mg
|
3 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Sugars, total |
g
|
0.52 |
1.53 |
0.14 |
0.07 |
0.05 |
|
Total Fat |
g
|
0.12 |
0.36 |
0.03 |
0.02 |
0.01 |
|
Vitamin A, IU |
IU
|
1822 |
5399 |
497 |
248 |
166 |
|
Vitamin B-6 |
mg
|
0.045 |
0.134 |
0.012 |
0.006 |
0.004 |
|
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid |
mg
|
2.0 |
6.0 |
0.6 |
0.3 |
0.2 |
|
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) |
mg
|
0.10 |
0.29 |
0.03 |
0.01 |
0.01 |
|
Vitamin E, added |
mg
|
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
Vitamin K (phylloquinone) |
mcg
|
56.3 |
166.7 |
15.3 |
7.7 |
5.1 |
|
Zinc, Zn |
mg
|
0.11 |
0.33 |
0.03 |
0.01 |
0.01 |
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