What kind of cucumber should I buy?
1. Variety: The common varieties of cucumber are thorn cucumber, whip cucumber, short cucumber and cucumber, and their tastes are different. Among them, thorn cucumber is the most crisp and tender, with the best quality. Therefore, when choosing cucumbers, it is best to choose pricked cucumbers. This cucumber has a rod-shaped body with a longitudinal ridge. There are protruding black tumors on the surface of tender melons, which are covered with bristles. Cucumber has small flesh, few seeds, crisp meat and good quality. It can be used for raw food and cooked food. The famous varieties are Beijing small thorn melon and big thorn melon, Shandong Wenshang cucumber, Xianyang big thorn melon and so on.
Second, look at thorns: thorns are very important, but not the more the better, but the more tender the better! If the thorns on the cucumber skin are small and dense, they will break when touched lightly, and this kind of cucumber will be tender and delicious. Those cucumbers with big thorns and sparse thorns don't taste like cucumbers. If there are no thorns, it means that the cucumber is old.
Third, look at the melon strips: the melon strips are straight, slender and uniform, and the short cucumber has good meat quality and good taste. Pumpkin-shaped melons with a big belly and a thin neck are cucumbers that grow old because of poor development or long storage time, and there are more cucumbers with a big belly. In addition, if the melon sticks and stems wither, they will be stored for a long time after picking.
Fourth, look at the color of the melon: the melon is bright green with longitudinal edges. Yellow or nearly yellow melons are old melons. Green and black melons are more delicious, while light green cucumbers are not.
5. Look at the vertical stripes: The vertical stripes on the epidermis of delicious cucumbers are more prominent and can be detected by hands and eyes. And those cucumbers with smooth surfaces and no vertical stripes are not delicious.
Sixth, look at the head: not too big, too big cucumber is not delicious, and relatively small cucumber is better.
Seven, look at the top flower: the cucumber of the top flower is not necessarily fresh, but may also be coated with chemicals. In fact, the normal mature cucumber, the top flower will naturally fall off, and the top flower will shrink and leave a scar. If the protuberance at the top of cucumber looks like a small hat, it is obviously coated with gibberellin. Its typical feature is that there are obvious small protrusions at the junction of flower bones and flower buds. The top of naturally growing cucumbers should be naturally streamlined, and it is best not to buy cucumbers with obvious nodules on the top.
Eight, hand pinch: pinch the cucumber with your fingernails, it feels crisp and tender, and the cucumber with water is fresh and tender.
Can cucumbers be eaten when they are soft?
It depends.
Fresh cucumbers are difficult to pinch, but if cucumbers become soft due to bacterial growth, such cucumbers are not recommended to be eaten.
However, if the cucumber is frozen in the refrigerator or frozen for a long time, the cells inside the cucumber will rupture due to freezing, and the cucumber can still be eaten without any harm to the human body, but the nutritional value of the frostbitten cucumber will be lower than before, and the edible taste will be affected to some extent.
Does cucumber have hormones?
Cucumber with flowers does not necessarily have hormones. Some unscrupulous traders dipped some hormones in the cucumber when it bloomed, so there are yellow flowers in Ice Fai, but we can't generalize completely. It is recommended to eat more conventional vegetables and try not to eat large cucumbers with flowers.
Will cucumber fade?
Cucumber is a green vegetable, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and losing weight. It is suggested that you can eat cucumber every day, which is good for your health, but the decolored cucumber is artificially colored and harmful to your health.