Cucumbers are vegetables, i.e., fruiting vegetables.

Fruiting vegetables include cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, squash, bitter melon, zucchini, cowpeas, peas, and other types. Leafy vegetables include lettuce, celery, spinach, leek, Chinese cabbage, bok choy, kohlrabi, kombucha, oleander, baby bok choy, and other types.

Root vegetables include white radish, carrot, turnip, turnip kale, root mustard and other kinds. Stem vegetables include garlic, scallions, shallots, ginger, lotus root, lettuce, asparagus and other types.

Cucumber details are as follows:

Cucumber is originally known as huckleberry. Cucumber flesh is crisp and tender, juicy and sweet, thirst quenching, with a special aroma. Cucumber contains a variety of nutrients, water content of 98%, per 100 grams of fresh cucumber, containing 0.6 grams of protein, 0.2 grams of fat, carbohydrates 2.0 grams. Protein contains arginine and other essential amino acids; carbohydrates are more varied, glucose, galactose, mannose, fructose, xylose.

In addition, cucumber also contains crude fiber, vitamin B1, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin C and other vitamins. Cucumber into medicine is contained in the "Herbal Gleanings", Chinese medicine that its cool taste sweet and non-toxic, into the spleen, stomach, large intestine three meridians. There is a thirst, in addition to the thirst, in addition to the summer, swelling and diuretic, sore throat, swelling of the limbs, hot diarrhea and blood.