Alkaline wrote:... Ah that gives me the idea of tasting my sugar loaves again. They were very bitter suddenly without success at the table. But now that it's frozen, they may have changed their taste like your salads
Same with me. They grow easily, become giant at the time of the "September push". But still very bitter (it seems that it is good for the health; there are written traces of "method of preparing a soporific medicine from white latex, thickened, common garden lettuce"; for the Wild lettuce, the effects would be wide: "Wild lettuce has sedative and hypnotic properties which calm the nerves or nervous excitement and induce sleep, with, moreover, analgesic properties which soothe pain. It is also characterized by antispasmodic virtues which calm the spasms, with emollient activities which soften, reduce the inflammation. It is an antipyretic plant (which lowers fever) and antitussive (which fights cough). Etc "I think these effects are related to alkaloids, related to bitterness ...
Source: https://renseigner.com/sante/phytothera ... les/laitue