When people eat cucumbers, they often throw them away because they taste bitter. In fact, this bitter taste is caused by a substance called cucurbitacin, and cucurbitacin C is a rare substance for detoxification and beauty.

More importantly, cucurbitacin can prevent fatty degeneration of hepatocytes and inhibit liver fibrosis, thus preventing primary liver cancer.

(1) Chopped cold salad

When cooking cold dishes, try to cut the cucumber into pieces and mix it with the cucumber.

2 drink juice.

Put cucumber and cucumber handle together in a blender and break into cucumber juice. Drink it every day, the beauty effect will be better.

Besides the cucumber handle, what nutrition does cucumber have? According to Compendium of Materia Medica, cucumber has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, diuresis and detumescence.

Cucumber is also a kind of "diet food", and it also contains cellulose, which is not necessarily enlightening to promote intestinal peristalsis, accelerate excretion and scatter cholesterol. Cucumber is low in calories and is a good food for treating hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes complicated with emaciation.

Extra points collocation of cucumber

Cucumber and auricularia auricula have good detoxification and weight loss effects.

Propionic acid in cucumber can inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat in the body, thus achieving the effect of losing weight. Auricularia auricula is rich in various nutrients and is known as "meat in vegetarian diet".

Cucumber+tofu detoxifies and relieves inflammation, moistens dryness and flattens stomach.

Tofu is cold in nature and contains very few carbohydrates. It has the functions of controlling body dryness and reducing fire. Paired with sweet and cold cucumber, it has the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, relieving exterior syndrome and detoxicating, diminishing inflammation, moistening lung and promoting fluid production, moistening dryness and regulating stomach, clearing heat and dispersing blood.

Cucumber+honey laxative.

Honey has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing deficiency and moistening lung, detoxifying and harmonizing various medicines. Eating with cucumber can relax the bowels and is also suitable for elderly friends.

The best time to eat boiled cucumber is before dinner, so be sure to eat it before eating other meals.

Because boiled cucumber has a strong detoxification effect, if it enters the body first, it can excrete the food fat and salt absorbed later.