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.

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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.

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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!
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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.
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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.
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Teenleaf™

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.