A frilly, open iceberg
Bred by Rijk Zwaan, Crystal lettuce presents as an open iceberg, featuring frilled, crunchy, and juicy leaves. Characterised by a sweet crunchy bite, Crystal lettuces boast a high leaf count with robust leaves, a light blister, and a frilled margin. Our internal studies consistently showcase Crystal lettuce's excellent performance in taste tests and processability, making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking high-quality lettuce varieties.
Harvest the benefits of Crystal lettuce
Innovative new lettuce type
Crystal lettuce is a range of open iceberg lettuce types. The varieties have more and evenly sized leaves. This offers more possibilities for the food service industry.
Numerous food service applications
These decorative leaves are ideal for single loose-leaf food service applications such as sandwiches, burgers and hotpot, making them the perfect iceberg replacement.
Ideal for Hydroponic cultivation
Crystal lettuce is the ideal crunchy lettuce type for hydroponic cultivation as wholehead and on high density for machine harvesting of loose individual leaves.
Cultivation in soil, on hydroponics and in plant factories
Crystal lettuce is especially suited to CEA conditions: hydroponic production, high intensity lit crops and plant factories because of the following characteristics: it is strong against tip burn and elongation, delivers an iceberg crunch in a faster growing cycle and is high yielding.
Ideal lettuce leaf for hot applications
These decorative leaves are ideal for single loose-leaf food service applications such as sandwiches and burgers, making them the perfect iceberg replacement. Crystal leaves perform well in combination with both acidic and hot ingredients, retaining their texture and crunch. This means that they are also suitable for the Asian hotpot market.For more information, please contact:
