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For a price, ready-to-eat salads promise a convenient way to get your greens. But what's inside can sometimes leave a lot to be desired.

We bought 15 ready-to-eat salads from supermarkets and asked our panel to rate them for quality. Only 3 of the 15 mixes we bought rated as good. Most of the rest were "fair"; three were "below average".

Highlights of this report


Freshness


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Our survey results


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Grow your own


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