name: Corn Salad

flavor_db_name_variants: corn salad

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Corn salad

id: 340

name_scientific: Valerianella locusta

description: Valerianella locusta is a small dicot annual plant of the family Valerianaceae. It is an edible salad green with a characteristic nutty flavor, dark green color, and soft texture. Common names include corn salad (or cornsalad), lamb's lettuce, mâche, fetticus, feldsalat, nut lettuce, field salad and rapunzel. In restaurants that feature French cooking, this salad green may be called doucette or raiponce, as an alternative to mâche, by which it is best known.

itis_id: 35392

wikipedia_id: Valerianella locusta

picture_file_name: 345.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 151143

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:30:11.000Z

legacy_id: 372

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Leaf vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:36.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:23.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 59166

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00340