<p>A Lettuce Revolution is taking place at Man Packing. Join the movement at the PMA Foodservice conference fresh produce expo booth #137. Attendees are invited to a lettuce tasting; all participants will be entered into a drawing to win a mini iPad.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Mann Packing recently sponsored a Technomic® report to uncover consumer preferences regarding salad greens, which resulted in the drafting of a “Lettuce Revolution Manifesto.” The first of five revolutionary points follow below.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://anuk-clients.s3.amazonaws.com/Mann_Packing/Mann%27s%20Lettuce%20Revolution%20Manifesto%202013.pdf" target="_new">THE MANIFESTO</a> 1 83% of restaurant consumers say that the type of salad green is an important factor in their decision to order a salad at a restaurant.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">2 Eight in ten restaurant consumers (78%) report that it is important to them that restaurants offer more healthy salad greens.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">3 Three-fourths of respondents (77%) say that the nutritional value of salad greens is important or extremely important to them whenever they order a salad at a restaurant.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">4 Nearly three quarters of restaurant consumers (73%) say that salad greens with a darker color provide more nutritional value than lighter colored salad greens.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">5 A darker color is the number one indicator of nutritional value by a wide margin (70%)<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">For more information, check out <a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.veggiesmadeeasy.com/" target="_new">Mann Packing</a> </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
