{"id":22300,"date":"2016-03-22T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T23:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22300"},"modified":"2016-03-22T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T23:05:40","slug":"california-lettuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-lettuce\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Scene: California Lettuce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/letucetype.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Name that lettuce!\u00a0 Pictured: Iceberg, Butterhead Boston, Green Leaf, Romaine, Red Leaf, Butterhead &#8211; Bibb,\u00a0and Oak Leaf lettuce<\/p>\n<p>Lettuce is not ranked\u00a0among the top 2016 food trends according to a\u00a0survey by the National Restaurant Association but you&#8217;ll find it at McDonald&#8217;s, in school salad bars as a\u00a0healthy choice, and a course option or entree at most restaurants. Food trends come and go but lettuce, which\u00a0has been cultivated\u00a0for at least\u00a04,500 years and made its way to the United States thanks to Christopher Columbus, remains a\u00a0Top 6 Crop in California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/lettuce.html\">California lettuce scene is green<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lettuce grows year-round\u00a0in\u00a0California<\/li>\n<li>70% of the state&#8217;s crop is grown in Monterey County<\/li>\n<li>Lettuce is the #6 ranked commodity under milk, almonds, grapes, cattle and strawberries<\/li>\n<li>Lettuce is worth more than $2 billion to the\u00a0California\u00a0economy<\/li>\n<li>California is the #1 grower of lettuce in the nation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name that lettuce!\u00a0 Pictured: Iceberg, Butterhead Boston, Green Leaf, Romaine, Red Leaf, Butterhead &#8211; Bibb,\u00a0and Oak Leaf lettuce Lettuce is not ranked\u00a0among the top 2016 food trends according to a\u00a0survey by the National Restaurant Association but you&#8217;ll find it at McDonald&#8217;s, in school salad bars as a\u00a0healthy choice, and a course option or entree at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}