Taste-Off: Asian-inspired salad kits to toss and serve — or toss out

Dump, pour, toss and serve. Thanks to the ever-growing lineup of bagged salad kits, adding salad to the plate has never been so easy.

Kits come in nearly every imaginable flavor combination, and span a range of cuisines. For this feature, we leaned into Asian-inspired salad kits, including Chinese, Thai, Korean and Japanese flavors.

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Among the things we learned is that the crucial elements in a great salad are a terrific dressing and mindfully cut veggies. Large, rough cuts of super crunchy cabbage, for example, are hard to eat and don’t have enough surface area to hold dressing. Thin-cut cabbage, delicate vegetable shreds and greens with ruffly leaves are far more easily dressed.

Key when choosing a salad kit is to examine the contents carefully to make sure the salad