[header] How to dress a salad [title] Choose fresh salad ingredients. [substeps] Greens should be crisp and vibrantly colored. Avoid yellowed, limp looking greens. 
Other vegetables and fruits should also be crisp and firm. Vegetables and fruits should be at the peak of ripeness or flavor, tomatoes should be fully colored, apples sweet and juicy, melons fully ripe and flavorful and so on.