1. Can I eat cucumbers every day?
Eating it every day is not recommended. Because cucumber is cool, although it can lose weight, it is not suitable for eating in large quantities, otherwise it will easily cause diarrhea.
2. How many cucumbers should I eat?
Take one capsule 2-3 times a week (about 100g). Because cucumber is a cold food, eating too much will reduce the digestive peristalsis of gastrointestinal tract and the secretion of digestive juice, and the decomposition ability of food will also decrease, making food difficult to digest, thus causing diarrhea.
3. What are the benefits of eating cucumber?
(1) lose weight
Cucumber contains malonic acid, which can reduce the content of fat in the human body, and if fat accumulates too much in the human body, it is easy to form obesity, so eating cucumber regularly can play a role in losing weight.
(2) detoxification
The fine cellulose in cucumber can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help us expel toxins from the body, and greatly improve the metabolism of the human body.
(3) Protect the liver
Cucumber contains a variety of amino acids, and the contents of alanine and arginine are relatively high, which can accelerate the metabolism of the liver and make the liver less affected by viruses. Eating more cucumbers can prevent and alleviate alcoholic cirrhosis.
(4) delaying aging
Cucumber contains cucumber enzyme and vitamin E, which can effectively prevent aging and play an antioxidant role, and is rich in vitamin C, which can whiten the skin, and these substances can effectively reduce the appearance of wrinkles and spots.
4. Who is not suitable for eating more cucumbers?
People with deficiency and cold constitution had better not eat more cucumbers, because cucumbers are cool food, which may cause cold to accumulate in the body and cause nausea and stomach cold. Patients with liver disease, gastrointestinal disease, cardiovascular disease and hypertension had better not eat too much pickled cucumber, because the salt in pickled cucumber will aggravate the condition.
5. What are the practices of cucumber?
For friends who like to eat cucumbers, different methods can make all kinds of delicious food, so here are some dietary remedies for cucumbers:
(1) cucumber dandelion porridge
Ingredients: 50g of rice, 50g of cucumber and 30g of dandelion.
Practice: Wash the rice, put it in the pot, add some water and water, and cook it with slow fire. Wash the cucumber and cut it into pieces. Wash dandelion and cut into pieces. After the rice porridge is cooked, add cucumber and dandelion and cook for 10 minute.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and diuresis, reducing swelling and clearing fire.
(2) Cucumber seaweed soup
Ingredients: cucumber 150g, dried laver 50g, laver 15g, soy sauce, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate and salt.
Practice: slice cucumber after washing, wash laver and dried seaweed for later use, pour appropriate amount of water into the pot, add washed cucumber and dried seaweed after boiling, and then add appropriate amount of refined salt and soy sauce; After the soup is boiled, skim the dog meat floating in the soup, then add seaweed, add appropriate amount of sesame oil and monosodium glutamate, and stir well.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and vexation, benefiting qi and tonifying kidney.