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How to eat cucumber is the healthiest?
In different parts of this country, different ethnic groups eat cucumbers in different ways. There are three common ways to eat: one is pickled cucumber; The second is to mix cucumbers; The third kind is fried cucumber. Another kind is no sauce, no mixing, no frying. Cucumber is washed and eaten as fruit in your hand, but most people mainly mix cucumbers. In fact, the best way to eat is to "mix cucumbers". The practice is: first, wash the cucumber, peel it, cut it into thin slices with a knife, marinate it with appropriate amount of salt for half an hour, then squeeze out the salt water and use white sugar, cooked vegetable oil or sesame oil. If you like spicy food, you can also dip it in Chili oil, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar. Such cold food can also increase appetite, eliminate abdominal distension and reduce dryness and heat. Once pickled, cucumbers contain tannic acid. Eating pickled cucumbers regularly can raise blood pressure and prevent diseases for people with low blood pressure. Eating raw cucumber, 250 ~ 300g a day, can obviously lose weight, reduce swelling, quench thirst, detoxify and clear heat. Cucumber skin can cure sore throat, short and yellow urine, red eyes and dizziness, heatstroke and upset. Therefore, cucumber is one of the best vegetables to lose weight, and it also has beauty and other effects. Tip: Cucumber contains a vitamin C decomposing enzyme, which will destroy vitamin C rich in other vegetables. Tomatoes are typical vegetables rich in vitamin C. If we eat them together, the vitamin C we take from tomatoes will be destroyed by the catabolic enzymes in cucumbers, and the effect of supplementing nutrition will not be achieved.