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Corn salad

Valerianella locustaAlso called lamb's lettuce, mâche, fetticus and feldsalat

Corn salad is a vegetable. Cooks use its leaves.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Vegetables
Part used
Leaf
Family
Caprifoliaceae
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
France
Corn salad, whole

Photo: Dinkum · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Around the world

Where corn salad is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses corn salad. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list corn salad among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1980s · United Kingdom

    London supermarkets began carrying mâche in the 1980s.

On the table

Dishes made with corn salad

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.
  • Mesclun

    France

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include corn salad.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: corn salad in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Around the world

What corn salad is called

Names in 61 languages, from Wikidata.
  • Spanish

    Canónigos · Yerba del canónigo · Valerianella lusitanica · Yerba de los canónigos

  • French

    Mâche · Salade de blé · Valeriana locusta · Valerianella locusta

  • Italian

    Songino · Serzetto · Valerianella locusta · Dolcetta

  • Portuguese

    Canónigos · Valerianella locusta · alface-da-terra · alface-de-coelho

  • German

    Gewöhnlicher Feldsalat · Valerianella locusta · Lämmli · Mausohrsalat

  • Dutch

    veldsla · Valerianella locusta · Gewone veldsla

  • Turkish

    Kuzugevreği

  • Russian

    Полевой салат · Валерианелла огородная · Valerianella locusta · Валерианелла колосковая

  • Polish

    Roszpunka warzywna · Roszpunka jadalna · Valerianella locusta · Roszponka warzywna

  • Arabic

    خس النعجة

  • Chinese

    萵苣纈草 · 羊萵苣 · 羊莴苣 · 野苣

  • Japanese

    ノヂシャ · ラムズレタス

Show all 61 languages
  • Albanian

    Valerianella locusta

  • Aragonese

    Valerianella locusta

  • Asturian

    Valerianella locusta

  • Basque

    Ardi-mihi

  • Belarusian

    Валер’янэла малая

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Valerianella locusta

  • Bulgarian

    Valerianella locusta

  • Cantonese

    羊萵苣

  • Catalan

    herba dels canonges · Valerianella locusta · Valerianella olitoria · Herba dels canonges

  • Cebuano

    Valerianella locusta

  • Corsican

    Valerianella locusta

  • Croatian

    Matovilac · Valerianella locusta

  • Czech

    kozlíček polní · Valerianella locusta · polníček · kozlíček polníček

  • Danish

    Feldsalat

  • Egyptian Arabic

    خس النعجه

  • Esperanto

    Valerianella locusta

  • Estonian

    põldkännak · Valerianella locusta · Valerianella olitoria

  • Extremaduran

    Valerianella locusta

  • Finnish

    vuonankaali · Valerianella locusta · rantavuonankaali

  • Galician

    Herba dos cóengos

  • Hungarian

    salátagalambbegy · Valerianella locusta · galambbegy · madársaláta

  • Icelandic

    Akursalat

  • Ido

    Valerianelo

  • Indonesian

    Selada domba

  • Interlingua

    Valerianella locusta

  • Interlingue

    Valerianella locusta

  • Irish

    ceathrú uain · Valerianella locusta · Ceathrú uain

  • Korean

    콘샐러드

  • Latin

    Valerianella locusta

  • Ligurian

    Valerianella locusta

  • Lithuanian

    Salade de Blé

  • Luxembourgish

    Mauséiercherszalot · Valerianella locusta

  • Neapolitan

    Còssa e muónece

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Vårsalat · Valerianella locusta

  • Occitan

    Valerianella locusta · Doceta

  • Piedmontese

    Valerianella locusta

  • Romanian

    Valerianella locusta

  • Serbian

    Матовилац · Valerianella locusta · Matilovac · Матиловац

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    Матовилац

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Matovilac

  • Simplified Chinese

    莴苣缬草

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    莴苣缬草

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    莴苣缬草

  • Slovak

    valeriánka poľná

  • Slovenian

    navadni motovilec · Valerianella locusta

  • Swedish

    Vårklynne · Machésallad · Machésallat · Vårsallat

  • Traditional Chinese

    萵苣纈草

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    萵苣纈草

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    萵苣纈草

  • Ukrainian

    Valerianella locusta

  • Upper Sorbian

    Prawa rjaponka · Solotwička

  • Venetian

    Gałinełe · Valerianella locusta · Galinele

  • Vietnamese

    Valerianella locusta

  • Volapük

    Valerianella locusta

  • Walloon

    Doûcete · Valerianella locusta · Oraye-di-live

  • Waray

    Valerianella locusta

  • Welsh

    Gwylaeth yr oen

  • West Flemish

    Kôornsaloa · Valerianella locusta · Valerianella olitoria

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q158954

Photos

Photo: Dinkum · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons