Types of Salad Leaves

The crisp, elongated leaves of this lettuce are the main ingredient in classic Caesar salad. Butterhead Lettuce.

This celtuce salad may be enjoyed as-is as a salad, cold appetizer or side dish. Pairing suggestions with leafy salad greens to make it more of a "Western-style" salad: baby watercress, gem lettuce, Bibb lettuce and endive.

Lettuce is the most common type of leaves used in a salad but there are many other leaves you can use in a salad base such as spinach, arugula, songino, radicchio, spinach, kale, etc. Iceburg lettuce is the most common in most salads because they are cheap but you can also use red lettuce, butter lettuce, and many more.