Cucumber fruit is oily green or emerald green, and can also be used as medicine. Cucumber is our common vegetable, which is rich in vitamins B2, C, E, carotene, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients.
As the saying goes, "Eating more melons in summer can relieve summer troubles". Cucumber is the most popular vegetable in summer. It tastes crisp, juicy and sweet. Whether eaten raw or fried, it is very delicious. When you go to the vegetable market to buy food, someone will always buy some cucumbers.
Especially in summer, people often drink beer and eat cold cucumber to cool off the heat!
What benefits does cucumber have to the body?
First of all:
It can effectively replenish water, which is a good protection for drying and dehydration, as well as heatstroke.
Second:
Cucumber is rich in vitamin C, which has the function of improving human immunity and anti-tumor. Therefore, cucumber has a good promotion effect on the increase of human immunity.
Third:
Cucumber is rich in vitamin E, which can delay aging, fight against excess oxygen free radicals in the body and whiten skin.
Fourth:
Cucumber is rich in alanine, arginine and glutamic acid, which has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on liver diseases, especially liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and alcoholic liver diseases.
Of course, cucumbers have similar foods. What are the "deadly enemies" of cucumber? Pay more attention to the collocation of cucumbers in life!
What foods do cucumbers eat together? Try not to eat them together, and don't take them seriously.
Cucumber and pepper
Cucumber can't be eaten with pepper. Cucumber and pepper belong to cyclamen. This is because nutrients such as vitamin C and capsaicin in pepper will be decomposed by cucumber enzymes in cucumber.
Don't stew cucumber and pepper together in daily life, although it is harmless to human body, it will reduce the absorption of vitamin C.
Cucumber and celery
Cucumber contains vitamin C decomposing enzyme. Because cucumbers are mostly raw or cold, enzymes will not be lost. If they are eaten together with celery, the vitamin C in celery will be decomposed and destroyed, so the nutritional value will be greatly reduced.
Cucumber and Shanghai Green
Shanghai green, also known as Shanghai cuisine, has a refreshing taste, is rich in cellulose, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins, and has high nutritional value, but eating with cucumber will destroy the nutritional value of vitamin C.
Cucumber and spinach
Spinach is rich in vitamins, minerals and carotenoids, which can nourish blood, stop bleeding and moisten dryness, while cucumber is also rich in nutritional value, but the combination of the two will be counterproductive, leading to a decrease in nutritional value.
Cucumber and yam
Yam is flat and sweet. Eating alone is easy to absorb and has high nutrition, but eating with cucumber will reduce its nutritional value.
What is the best collocation of cucumber?
Auricularia and cucumber
Propylene diacid in cucumber can inhibit the transformation of sugar into fat in the body and can play a role in losing weight.
The plant gum in Auricularia auricula has a strong adsorption force, which can concentrate some impurities left in the human digestive system and excrete them, thus playing the role of detoxification and clearing the intestines.
Mixing the two can achieve the effects of losing weight, nourishing and strengthening, promoting blood circulation and balancing nutrition. Therefore, girls who want to lose weight may wish to eat more cucumber, fish and fungus.
Tofu cucumber
Tofu has the highest content of protein in plant food, and its protein is easily digested and absorbed by human body, so it is an ideal food for people with gastrointestinal digestive dysfunction.
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.
The cosmetic effect of cucumber;
1, reduce eye edema, and treat eye edema with two thin cucumber slices (the cooling effect is better because it can reduce swelling).
2, put it on your bikini line, anti-inflammatory characteristics, apply cucumber to the skin to help reduce the redness of freshly waxed skin, and put the cucumber in the refrigerator before use.
3. Make cucumber mud mask. Adding a cucumber mud mask can give people a calming effect. Try DIY mask once a week in cold weather.
4, treatment of sunburn, if you forget to apply sunscreen when you go out, you want to quickly end the painful sunburn, try to remedy it with cucumber. They promote blood circulation and help restore moisture to the skin.