In 2019, the U.S. price for one pound of lettuce amounted to almost **** U.S. dollars. Back in the nineties, the average cost per pound was less than ** cents.
Lettuce sales and consumption
With a sales share of approximately ** percent, 2019’s best-selling type of lettuce was fresh cut salad by far. Iceberg lettuce captured a share of about *** percent of U.S. lettuce sales in that year. That being said, annual U.S. per capita consumption of fresh lettuce (head) has dropped considerably over the last two decades. While consumers in the United States ate over ** pounds of lettuce on average in the year 2000, this number dropped to just over *** pounds by 2019.
Eat your vegetables
In 2019, about ** percent of people in the United States bought and ate potatoes, making it the most consumed vegetable in the country. Some other favorites among Americans included onions, tomatoes, and carrots. Only about ** of the group had bought cucumbers in the past 12 months.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics. (February 3, 2020). Retail price of iceberg lettuce in the United States from 1995 to 2019 (in U.S. dollars per pound) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved August 05, 2026, from /statistics/236904/retail-price-of-lettuce-in-the-united-states/
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