What's the Ultimate Salad? or is there one?

The ultimate salad is the one that gets the greens inside of you.

 

On kale:

Another concern has been the goitrogen content of kale and other cruciferous vegetables. Goitrogens are naturally occurring substances that can block iodine from entering the thyroid gland. Iodine is a trace mineral needed by the body to make thyroid hormones that promote normal metabolism. A deficiency of iodine can lead to a condition called goiter, or enlargement of the thyroid. Healthy persons who eat enough iodine and metabolize iodine normally will not be affected by dietary goitrogens. However, if one has an underactive thyroid called hypothyroidism and cannot produce enough thyroid hormone, eating excess goitrogens, especially in raw form, may further suppress thyroid activity and increase the risk of goiter. Those who have hypothyroidism specifically due to an iodine deficiency are at greatest risk. A simple solution is to cook cruciferous vegetables, which deactivates the enzyme responsible for causing the goitrogenic effect. [7] Including a wide variety of vegetables each week other than cruciferous will also protect against eating an excess amount of goitrogens.

From
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/kale/

 

Today’s salad is green leaf, roasted tomatoes, baked tofu, roasted red pepper (it’s cold and I want an excuse to run the oven), Ed onion, reed cabbage, lime cilantro vinaigrette. This will be lunch and dinner.