Cucumber is a vegetable that can beautify, known as "beautifier in the kitchen". Eating it frequently or applying it on the skin can effectively resist skin aging, reduce the formation of wrinkles, and prevent cheilitis and angular stomatitis.
In summer, cucumber is a "regular" on the family dining table. However, when eating cucumber, be sure not to throw away the cucumber handle to avoid losing good things. This is because the cucumber handle contains more bitter substances. The bitter component is cucurbitacin C, which is a rare detoxifying and nourishing food. Animal experiments have confirmed that this substance has significant anti-tumor effects.
In addition to the cucumber handle, what other nutrients does cucumber have? In "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that cucumber has the effects of clearing heat, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis, and reducing swelling. The flesh of cucumber is crisp and tender, juicy, sweet, refreshing when eaten raw, and has an extraordinary fragrance. According to analysis, cucumber contains 98% water, rich in protein, sugar, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients.
Cucumber is also a kind of "weight loss food". Modern pharmacological studies believe that fresh cucumber also contains propylene glycol, which can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrate substances into fat. Cucumber also contains cellulose, which plays a certain role in promoting intestinal peristalsis, accelerating excretion, and lowering cholesterol. Cucumber has very low calories and is an ideal therapeutic vegetable for people with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obese diabetes. Eating cucumber can promote urination and help remove potentially harmful substances like uric acid from the blood. Cucumber has a sweet and cool taste, with the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, and detoxification. It has unique effects on chest heat and diuresis, and also has obvious effects on removing dampness, lubricating the intestines, and relieving pain. In addition, cucumber can also treat burns and heat rash. Moreover, cucumber vines have good effects of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol.
In addition to not throwing away the cucumber head, what else should we pay attention to when eating cucumber? Cucumber is cold in nature, so people with cold spleen and stomach, or those who are chronically ill and physically weak, should eat less. People with liver disease, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disease, and hypertension should not eat pickled cucumbers. Also, note that if you grow your own cucumbers without using pesticides, you can wash them and eat them; if they are pesticide-free cucumbers, they have been tested and need to be soaked for 15 minutes before eating; for cucumbers bought from the market, it's best to soak them, peel them, and then eat.