Here are salads at their freshest and best. They make the perfect energy-giving lunch on the run, acccompaniment to a barbecue, light starter or satisfying meal. Seasonal ingredients, fresh flavours and bursts of bright jewel-like colour typify today's eclectic salad offerings, where noodles or rice, cheese or fruit, poultry or meat, nuts or pulses nestle among the salad greens, all topped off with a zippy dressing.