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I heard it was good for bd's but none of the sites i have seen have it listed.

I'm not sure of their exact nutritional content, but i know they are not much more nutritious than iceberg lettuce, which isnt much. Its ok to feed in small quantities, as long as the basis of your salad is dark leafy greens like collards and mustard/turnip/dandelion greens.
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~Melissa~
1.3 Leopard geckos
1.0 Bearded dragon
1.0 Hog Island Boa
0.0.1 crested gecko
1.0 Ferret
0.1 Chinchilla
1.0 Chinese Praying Mantis

Melissas Menagerie

From what ive read and heard you want to stay away from anything like iceberg lettuce. The animals get addicted to it and its all they will eat and it has absolutely no nutritional value.

No lettuce. It does not have the nutritional value that your beardie needs. It's like feeding them water. Stick to dark leafy greens such as turnip greens, mustard greens, collard greens, grated yellow squash, grated zucchini squash, and grated carrots, along with the dusted crickets. I add just a pinch of calcium & multivitamin supplement twice a week for my young beardies and once weekly for my adults. Clover leafs and dandelion are also a good source. Kale and spinach may be used as a variety, but not very often or too much. This tends to give them gastointestinal disorders. You may also offer them fruits such as berries and melon. Most beardies love strawberries as a special treat. Stay away from the citrus fruits. You can also add some of the Bearded Dragon Pellet type food that is sold at most petshops, but I've never had one that would eat it.
Cricket

Romaine Lettuce is much more nutritious than iceberg lettuce and is generally considered the most nutritious of the lettuces.
Collard and mustard greens are better but I haven't always had luck getting my herps to eat it and it isn't as widely available. So try the greens, but don't be afraid of using romaine as part of of their veggie diet. I also feed romaine and collards to my crickets, mealworms and superworms as a gutload.

Amount Per 1 innerleaf
Calories 1.4
Calories from Fat 0.18

% Daily Value *

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Total Fat 0.02g 0%

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Saturated Fat 0.0026g 0%

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Polyunsaturated Fat 0.0106g

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Monounsaturated Fat 0.0008g

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Cholesterol 0mg 0%

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Sodium 0.8mg 0%

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Potassium 29mg 1%

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Total Carbohydrate 0.237g 0%

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Dietary Fiber 0.17g 1%

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Protein 0.162g 0%

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Alcohol 0g

Vitamin A 5 % Vitamin C 4 %

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Calcium 0 % Iron 1 %

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Vitamin D 0 % Vitamin E 0 %

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Thiamin 1 % Riboflavin 1 %

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Niacin 0 % Folate 3 %

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Vitamin B-6 0 % Vitamin B-12 0 %

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Phosphorus 0 % Magnesium 0 %

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Zinc 0 % Copper 0 %
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TheClassyLizard

20% Vit A, 4% Vit C, 10% Folate(B-Folic Acid), 2% Calcium, 2% Iron. A little more than "filler"
http://www.dietfacts.com/item.asp?itemid=2696

Romaine lettace is fine if used with other more nutricious greens, such as collards, mustard, dandelion etc. It should never be used as a stable green because it doesn't contain what dragons need in sufficient quantities. Iceberg lettace is the worse, Romaine is only a little better.

It has more Vitamin A then anything...which isn't the best things for dragons either.
Put it this way, a dragon cannot stay healthy with Romaine as it's staple green.
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TheClassyLizard