A remarkable feature of cucumber is that its water content is as high as 96%-98%, which is the highest among fruits and vegetables. Dry mouth in summer, a cucumber can make people dry mouth, sweet and cool. It contains rich and delicate cellulose, which plays a very good role in promoting intestinal peristalsis, promoting defecation and expelling intestinal toxins. It can also lower blood fat. Cucumber can lose weight, mainly because fresh cucumber contains a substance called malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat in the human body. According to research, malonic acid has no toxic side effects. Therefore, cucumber is called a good natural diet food by medical nutritionists.
Medicinal value
Cucumber is a good medicine, in which vines, roots and seeds can be used as medicine. Chinese medicine believes that cucumber is sweet and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and quenching thirst and dredging waterways. Can be used for treating polydipsia, pharyngalgia, red eye and scald. Fever patients are thirsty, so eating cucumber has a good effect of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. For patients with sore throat and pinkeye, an old cucumber is seeded, filled with mirabilite, dried in the shade, ground into fine powder, and blown to the throat or eye spots. Burn or prickly heat, mashed with fresh cucumber, applied to the affected area. Cucumber pickled with honey can treat dysentery and diarrhea.
The vines, leaves and roots of cucumber are beneficial to water detoxification and can be used to treat diseases such as yellow sores, dysentery and diarrhea.
efficacy
Cucumber, also known as cucumber and king melon, is a kind of melon vegetable that can be blindly used for beauty. Cucumber contains 96%-98% water, which is not only crisp, tender and fragrant, but also delicious and nutritious. Cucumber contains a variety of sugars (glucose, rhamnose, galactose, mannose, xylose and fructose) necessary for human growth and life activities, more vitamins (vitamins C, A, B2 and E), rich potassium salts, sugars, calcium, phosphorus, iron and rutin, as well as a variety of free amino acids, fine cellulose and chlorogenic acid. The content of vitamin C is five times higher than that of watermelon. It also contains soft and delicate cellulose, which can promote the excretion of intestinal corrupt substances and reduce cholesterol. Fresh cucumber also contains malonic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. Long-term consumption is good for restraining obesity, so cucumber is one of the indispensable foods for human health and beauty. Cucumber enzyme of fresh cucumber is a kind of biological enzyme with strong activity, which can effectively promote human metabolism, promote blood circulation and achieve the purpose of skin care and beauty.
Cucumber is rich in vitamins C, E, B2, carotene, calcium, iron and phosphorus. At the same time, cucumber also contains cucurbitacin, propanol diacid and fine fiber. , is a very rare food for detoxification and beauty.
Cucumber contains cucumber acid, which can promote human metabolism and expel toxins from our bodies. Cucumber is very beneficial to the heart, liver and lungs.
nutritive value
Cucumber is rich in vitamins and can prevent cheilitis and angular stomatitis. Cucumber contains fine cellulose, which can reduce the content of cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, promote the excretion of rotten food in intestine, improve the metabolism of human body, and have an indirect effect on the beauty of skin and hair. Fresh cucumber contains malonic acid, which can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. Therefore, eating cucumbers regularly can help you lose weight.
There are various ways to get into this dish.
Cucumber can be eaten in many ways, both raw and cooked. Mixing, frying, burning, frying, sliding, brewing, pickling, pickling, making soup and so on are all good. Representative dishes include garlic cucumber, preserved egg cucumber, cucumber slice soup, pickled cucumber, fermented cucumber, vinegar cucumber, etc. You can choose from them.