2, cucumber is helpful for beauty and skin care. Female friends usually eat more cucumbers. The water, vitamin C and vitamin E contained in cucumber are all nutrients that our body needs. After eating, they can help our skin health, enhance skin elasticity and reduce pigmentation. And there is a substance called cucumber enzyme in cucumber, which also has the effect of preventing aging.
3. Cucumber helps to lose weight. Friends who want to lose weight should eat more cucumbers. Cucumber itself is rich in water and dietary fiber. These substances can help intestinal peristalsis and help relieve constipation. Cucumber itself is low in calories. Eating cucumber helps to increase satiety and reduce calorie intake. So eating more cucumbers can help us lose weight.
4, cucumber helps to soothe the nerves and strengthen the brain. Vitamin B 1 contained in cucumber has the functions of relieving tension, calming the nerves and strengthening the brain, and can help treat insomnia.
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Cucumber Cucurbitaceae is an annual creeping or climbing herb. Stems and branches are elongated, wrinkled, and white and rough. Tendrils are very thin. Petiole slightly rough, with rough hair; Leaf blade broadly ovate-cordate, membranous, lobes triangular, dentate. Monoecious. Male flowers: constant flowers clustered in leaf axils; Pedicel slender, puberulent; Corolla yellow-white, oblong-lanceolate corolla lobes. Female flowers: solitary or sparsely clustered; Pedicel stout, pilose; The ovary is rough. The fruit is oblong or cylindrical, yellow-green at maturity and rough on the surface. Seeds are small, narrowly ovate, white, borderless, and both ends are nearly acute. Summer flower and fruit period.
It is widely cultivated in all parts of China, and cultivated in greenhouses or plastic greenhouses in many areas. Now it is widely planted in temperate and tropical regions. Cucumber is one of the main vegetables in China in summer. Stems and vines have medicinal value, which can diminish inflammation, eliminate phlegm and relieve spasm.