How do you explain the difference between lettuce and cabbage?

To a person who doesn't know?
How do you explain the difference between lettuce and cabbage?
Instead of our personal oppinions hear is an exact defintion. Also, don't feel stupid cause I'm a dumb brunnette.



lettuce-a cultivated plant, Lactuca sativa, occurring in many varieties and having succulent leaves used for salads.



cabbage-any of several cultivated varieties of a plant, Brassica oleracea capitata, of the mustard family, having a short stem and leaves formed into a compact, edible head.

the head or leaves of this plant, eaten cooked or raw.
Reply:The same why you'd explain the difference between an apple and a pear. They are different things.
Reply:I think cabbage has a purple color to it.I don't know.
Reply:Provide pictures, or better yet a taste test.
Reply:They are two entirely different plants, they don't taste anything alike, they just look alike. Lettuce is used in Salads while Cabbage is what saurkraut is made from.



lettuce can have a sweet taste or a bitter taste.

cabbage is usually pretty dull it also feels a bit rubber (thicker than lettuce) cabbage can be purple too.
Reply:Lettuce is good and cabbage is not lol!
Reply:the taste definately!

lettuce has hardly any taste and cabbage does

also cabbage has more vitimins
Reply:Cabbage is nasty on a sandwich and lettuce is just gross with corned beef.
Reply:Lettuce has more water content than cabbage.
Reply:Lettuce has looser and greener outer leaves, while cabbage is more tightly wrapped within itself.
Reply:Taste and denseness of the product
Reply:Lettuce is a temperate annual or biennial plant most often grown as a leaf vegetable. In some countries, it is typically eaten cold and raw, in salads, hamburgers, tacos, and many other dishes. In some places, including China, lettuce is typically eaten cooked and use of the stem is as important as use of the leaf.



The Lettuce plant has a short stem initially (a rosette growth habit), but when it blooms the stem lengthens and branches, and it produces many flower heads that look like those of dandelions, but smaller. This is called bolting. When grown to eat, lettuce is harvested before it bolts.



Lettuce is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera.



Both the English name and the Latin name of the genus are derived from lactis, the Latin word for "milk", referring to its milky juice of the plant.



The cabbage (Brassica oleracea Capitata Group) is a plant of the Family Brassicaceae (or Cruciferae). It is herbaceous, biennial, and a dicotyledonous flowering plant with leaves forming a characteristic compact cluster. In addition, the cabbages which growns late in autumn and in the beginning of winter are denominated coleworts.



The cabbage is derived from a leafy wild mustard plant, native to the Mediterranean region. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans; Cato the Elder praised this vegetable for its medicinal properties, declaring that "it is first of all the vegetables".[1]. The English name derives from the Normanno-Picard caboche ("head"). Cabbage was developed by ongoing artificial selection for suppression of the internode length. The dense core of the cabbage is called the babchka.
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