Convenience, freshness and taste with Salanova®
Just one cut is enough to divide the head of lettuce into many small leaves. Taste and texture range from the mild, delicate taste of Salanova® lettuce to the crunchy bite of Salanova® Crispy.
Benefits for the entire value chain
Salanova® offers numerous advantages for growers, food service companies, retailers and consumers:
Suitable for both greenhouse and open field cultivation.
Enables mechanical harvesting both as heads and as loose leaves.
Offers multiple opportunities for diversification in terms of taste and convenience.
Creates the opportunity to generate added value in the salad category.
Characterized by an excellent shelf life, both as whole heads and as cut lettuce.
Saves time thanks to the “ready-to-cut” principle and small leaves.
Available all year round.
As part of Rijk Zwaan's global Salanova® network, crop specialists, growers, processors and retailers work together to increase consumer awareness and promote Salanova® recognition.
Salanova® is unique
Each head of Salanova® lettuce has two to four times as many leaves as conventional varieties. These leaves are not only numerous, but also uniform in size and shape. What makes Salanova® particularly special is the ease of preparation. The leaves sit compactly on the stalk, allowing them to be removed with a simple cut. As a result, all the leaves fall apart in a uniform size so that they only need to be washed briefly - and the salad is ready!
The ideal “Living Lettuce”
Salanova lettuce is very suitable for hydroponic production as whole-head lettuce and in high growing densities. It is an important part of the Rijk Zwaan hydroponic range.
Solutions for convenience
Salanova lettuce has revolutionized ready-to-cook or ready-to-eat lettuce mixes. Find out more about other solutions for the convenience and fresh cut market from Rijk Zwaan.
Teenleaf™ Lettuce The efficient fresh cut salad solution
Salanova® Teenleaf Lettuce is the efficient solution for the fresh-cut market: a range of varieties that are mechanically harvestable and suitable for both open-field and high-tech hydroponic cultivation. By growing on a high density and mechanically harvesting at a later stage than babyleaf, Teenleaf Lettuce results in higher yields, stronger and more colourful leaves, baby sized and forkable for the consumer.