Salad garnishes are ingredients added to salads to enhance their flavor and texture. Onions, cress, radish, olives, croutons, and black olives are all common salad garnishes. Onions are a pungent vegetable with a strong flavor, cress is a type of leafy green vegetable, radish is a root vegetable with a peppery flavor, olives are a type of fruit that is usually pickled, croutons are small pieces of toasted or fried bread, and black olives are a type of OLIVE that has been cured in an iron-rich brine. All of these ingredients can be used to add flavor and texture to salads.