The value of cucumber:
Edible
Cucumber is sweet, sweet, cool, bitter and non-toxic, and enters the spleen, stomach and large intestine; Has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, and clearing away heat and toxic materials, and is mainly used for treating polydipsia, sore throat, burning eyes and burns. And lose weight.
Food taboos:
1, cucumber and peanut are easy to cause diarrhea.
2, cucumber and pepper, celery collocation, vitamin C is destroyed.
Cucumber contains an enzyme that decomposes vitamin C, but in daily life, cucumber is eaten raw. At this time, the vitamin C decomposing enzyme contained in cucumber keeps certain activity. If it is eaten with foods rich in vitamin C such as peppers, the vitamin C decomposing enzyme in cucumber will destroy the vitamin C in other foods. Although it is harmless to human body, it will reduce the absorption of vitamin C.
Food efficacy:
Cucumber is rich in protein, sugar, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. In addition, cucumber can also be used for beauty: cucumber is warm and dehumidified, which can converge and eliminate skin wrinkles, especially suitable for people with darker skin.
Related recipes:
Preserved egg cucumber soup, cucumber scrambled eggs, spicy cucumber, cucumber cold yuba, cucumber slices with garlic paste, cucumber fried shrimp, cucumber juice with southern eyebrows, cucumber cream, laver cucumber soup, cucumber dandelion porridge.
nutritive value
Nutrient composition: nutrient element content (per kloc-0/00g)
95.23g of water, 0/5kcal of calories/kloc-0, 0.65g of protein, 0.1g of fat, 3.63g of carbohydrate, 0.5g of fiber, 0/.67g of sugar16mg of calcium/kloc-0. Vitamin C 2.8 mg, vitamin B 10.027 mg, riboflavin 0.033 mg, nicotinic acid 0.098 mg, folic acid 7 μ g, vitamin A 5 μ g, vitamin E 0.03 mg, vitamin D(D2+D3) 0 μ g, vitamin K 16.4 μ g, saturated fatty acid 0.037 g, mono-amino acid.
Medicinal value
Toxicity: low toxicity.
Sexual taste: sweet; Cold sex.
Meridian tropism: lung tropism; Spleen; Stomach meridian.
Indications: clearing heat; Lishui; Detoxify. Main fever and thirst; Urine is short and red; Edema and oliguria; Fire and water burns; Sweat spot; Non-sore
Usage and dosage: oral: proper amount, cooked or undercooked; Or twist clothes. External use: appropriate amount, rubbed or smeared with juice.
1, anti-tumor
Cucurbitacin C contained in cucumber can improve human immune function and achieve anti-tumor purpose.
2. Anti-aging
Cucumber is rich in vitamin E, which can prolong life and resist aging. Cucumber enzyme in cucumber has strong biological activity.
3. Lose weight and keep fit
Propanoic acid contained in cucumber can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat.
Step 4 strengthen the brain and soothe the nerves
Cucumber contains vitamin B 1, which is beneficial to improve the function of brain and nervous system and soothe the nerves.
5, to prevent alcoholism
Alanine, arginine and glutamine contained in cucumber have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with liver diseases, especially those with alcoholic cirrhosis, and can prevent and treat alcoholism.
6, lower blood sugar
Glucoside and fructose contained in cucumber do not participate in the usual sugar metabolism, so diabetic patients use cucumber instead of starch food to satisfy their hunger, and their blood sugar will not increase or even decrease.
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus Linn, English name Cucumber) belongs to Cucurbitaceae. Also known as gourd and cucumber. The fruit is oily green or green with soft thorns on the surface.
Widely cultivated in all parts of China, and now widely cultivated in temperate and tropical regions. Cucumber is one of the main greenhouse products, because it likes warmth and is not cold-resistant.
Cucumber was brought back to the Central Plains by Zhang Qian in the Western Han Dynasty, and it was called cucumber. The word "Hu" was taboo by Emperor Shile of Zhao after the Five Dynasties and Sixteen Countries, and was later changed to "cucumber" by Fan Tan, the county magistrate of Han Dynasty.