What is National Salad Week?

At long last, it’s time to celebrate salads! For a week, restaurants, cafes and homes will be encouraged to share the leaf-love and get us all indulging in our favourites as well as trying out new adventurous versions.

So, whether you like it hot, cold, warm, small, large, veggie, meaty, fishy, saucy, crispy, healthy, hearty, clean, creamy, oily, green, colourful, spicy, sweet, sour, caprese, cobb, waldorf, Italian or Greek……. now is the week for salad!

When does National Salad Week occur?

National Salad Week will run from the 1st until the 7th of June 2024, giving our nation of salad-fans a chance to appreciate the most versatile of foods.

How to Celebrate

Celebrating National Salad Week. As salad connoisseurs know, salads are not just a side-dish, they can be the main event. And, they’re not just for summer, they’re an all-year-rounder.

Here are some ways to join in:

 Create Your Own Salad: Gather your favourite ingredients and create your own super-salad. Experiment with colours and flavours, and don’t follow the rules.
 Salad-soiree: Host a salad-themed gathering with friends. Put on a salad spread of different salads from all over the world and tuck in.
 Social-salads: Share the Lettuce Love and inspire others. Share your salad creations or yummy restaurant salads on social media, tagging #NationalSaladWeek

2024 will see the first UK National Salad Week. This awareness week is brought to you by Unbeleafable – the salad range with longer-lasting leaves.

Here’s a few fun facts about salad.

1. Salad comes from the Latin word for salt – “sal”. In Roman times greens were usually seasoned with dressings containing lots of salt. The French eventually coined the term “salade”.

2. Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family and Christopher Columbus introduced lettuce to the Americas.

3. The ancient Greeks and Romans thought that eating lettuce helped you to have a good night’s sleep.

4. The most abundant nutrient in lettuce is water, and it can be over 90%, so it can help to keep you hydrated.

5. Leonardo da Vinci was the first artist to depict salad in his paintings. In the Leda, 1504, a child, standing next to the goddess of fertility, poses with a bouquet of lambs lettuce.