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