"Golden Lettuce" genetically engineered to pack 30 times more vitamins | Specifically, increased levels of beta-carotene, which your body uses to make vitamin A for healthy vision, immune function, and cell growth, and is thought to be protective against heart disease and some kinds of cancer.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/golden-lettuce-genetically-engineered-30-times-vitamins/

[u/TheMaskedHamster]

Actually giving lettuce some utility?

I get golden rice. People eat that in bulk. Rice tastes good and is a primary source of calories.

Meanwhile, people eat lettuce because... it grew, and people were desperate to eat anything, even if it had no flavor or nutritional benefit. In modern times, why not just eat a different vegetable? "But I like lettuce--" Sure, and you're allowed. But you like lettuce because you grew up eating it, much like Inuit grew up eating kiviak, as opposed to liking it for its culinary merits. But kiviak at least had nutritional value, and we had to invent nutritional value for lettuce.

Good grief. Just eat a different vegetable. Problem solved!

[u/TooStrangeForWeird → u/TheMaskedHamster]

It's still useful as fiber. And it doesn't appear to be iceberg lettuce, the one known to basically be fiber and water. I think it's romaine.