Lettuce

Lettuce is at the center of a food scare and people wonder how something so innocent can be so dangerous.

Actually it is one of the most carcinogenic of foods being rated just behind coffee.

This isn’t actually so serious as it is well behind alcohol and that is again a lot less than a cigarette! But lettuce is actually worse than some pesticides!

All of this is from a paper by a Professor Bruce Ames at the University of California. It makes you think and depending on whether you worry or not, it could make things worse or better!