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Information about cucumber
Cucumber, an annual creeping or climbing herb of Cucurbitaceae. Stems and branches are elongated, furrowed, thick white, with thin tendrils and slightly rough petioles. 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.

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Promoting digestion and improving gastrointestinal digestive function are also important benefits for people to drink cucumber juice, because cucumber is rich in dietary fiber and active enzymes, which can accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis and improve gastrointestinal digestive function after being absorbed by human body;

It can also accelerate the digestion and decomposition of food in human body, promote the metabolism of human body, and play an important role in clearing intestine, detoxifying and relaxing bowels while promoting digestion.

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