Cucumber: weight loss and beauty effect Cucumber is a fruit of Cucurbitaceae, which is cylindrical, turquoise when tender and yellow when old. Fresh and tender cucumber is crisp and juicy, fragrant and delicious. You can eat it as fruit or stir-fry it cold. Cucumber head tastes slightly bitter, and the bitter components are cucurbitacins A, B, C and D, which have anti-tumor effect. Modern pharmaceutical research has confirmed that fresh cucumber contains "propanol diacid", which can inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat in human body. Therefore, if obese people want to lose weight, in addition to doing more exercise, eating more fresh cucumbers can also achieve the purpose of losing weight. In addition, cucumber also contains "fine cellulose", which can promote intestinal peristalsis and accelerate the excretion of corrupt substances in the body. For people with dry stools, eating cucumbers can make the stools smooth; In patients with hyperlipidemia, eating cucumbers can also lower cholesterol in the blood. Main ingredients: contains polysaccharide, rutin, isoquercitrin, various free amino acids, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, carotene, vitamin B 1, C and various minerals. Cosmetic application: 1. Drink with fresh cucumber juice or apply it to your face. The effective components of cucumber have cleaning and antibacterial effects on facial skin. After drinking (painting), it can properly nourish the skin and stretch wrinkles, and the curative effect is rapid and reliable. 2. Slice the cucumber, stick it on the face and exposed parts, and then go out after about 20 minutes. Cucumber oil contained in cucumber has a certain effect on absorbing ultraviolet rays, which can prevent dark spots caused by going out in the sun and make rough skin softer and healthier. Cucumber green peel contains chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid, which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells. Therefore, eating cucumber with skin often has a certain effect on preventing upper respiratory tract infection. But cucumber is cold, so for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency cold, chronic bronchitis, gastrointestinal ulcer, colitis and so on. Patients should avoid eating raw food, or add other seasoning foods beneficial to the spleen and stomach and stir-fry them into dishes to eat.