Nutritional Praise for the Lowly Dandelion
Did you know that one of the most nutritious of all the plants you can put in a salad is flourishing-- if you are like me, right outside your front door? The lowly dandelion! The poor ole dandelion, called piss-en-lit by the French (literally piss in the bed) is held in contempt by most people.
However, its leaves, which can be easily incorporated into a green salad, are higher in vitamin C (14,000) and calcium (187) than any other green you can name. Kale (8,900/135), turnip greens, (7,600/190), arugula (7,400/309) and spinach (6,715/99) are hardly even in the dandelion league nutritionally.
The crispy greens we love most, Romaine (2,600/36), garden leaf lettuce (1,900/68) and iceberg (330/19) are lightweights. Belgian endive that I love is worthless--(0/0). Zero in both the vitamin C and calcium categories.

Keep a critical eye out for the most nutritious green there is--the lowly dandelion green.