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Iceberg Lettuce

Tight heads with a clean crunch, for salad and food-service programmes.

Iceberg Lettuce exported from Egypt
Vegetables

Iceberg Lettuce

Tight heads with a clean crunch, for salad and food-service programmes.

Availability: Oct – May

Iceberg Lettuce specification
Sizes / counts Standard heads
Packing Cartons

Carton configurations

Iceberg Lettuce — Carton configurations
Description One-layer carton (supermarket) Two-layer carton (processing)
Carton dimensions 40 × 60 × 16 cm 40 × 60 × 27 cm
Pallets per container 20 pallets 20 pallets
Cartons per pallet 80 cartons 40 cartons
Heads per carton 10 heads 20–22 heads
Approx. net weight per carton 6–7 kg 11–12 kg
Cartons per container 1,600 cartons 800 cartons
Approx. net weight per container 9.6–11.2 tons 8–10 tons
Bags Every head in an isolated bag All heads in one large perforated bag
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