Cucumber contains water, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, and has high nutritional value. Cucumber is very common on the daily table. It can be eaten raw or cooked. Pay attention to washing raw cucumbers to avoid gastrointestinal discomfort caused by unclean food. Proper consumption of cucumber is helpful to supplement nutrition for the body, and cucumber is relatively low in calories, which is also suitable for people who need to control calories. It is a vegetable with low fat, low calorie and high dietary fiber.

Growth habit of cucumber

Cucumber is suitable for soil with sufficient water and fertilizer and rich organic matter and wet and rainy environment, and has the characteristics of shallow root system, large leaves, temperature resistance, humidity resistance and weak light resistance. Cucumber likes places where the temperature, humidity and fertilizer are equivalent. Cucumber fruit is oblong or cylindrical, with a length of 10-30 cm. When mature, it is yellow-green, with rough surface and spiny protrusions, extremely sparse and almost smooth. Cucumber root system has the characteristics of liking temperature, humidity, oxygen, avoiding light, tending to fertilize, and being intolerant of high concentration soil solution and alkaline soil.

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