Cucumber meat is crisp and tender, and its juice is sweet. It can quench thirst by eating raw and has a special flavor. The water content of cucumber is 98%, and it is rich in protein, sugar, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients.
2. Cucumber has the effect of calming the nerves.
Cucumber contains vitamin B 1, which is beneficial to improve the function of brain and nervous system, calm the nerves and help to treat insomnia.
3. Cucumber can improve human immunity and resist tumor.
Cucurbitacin C contained in cucumber can improve human immune function and achieve the purpose of anti-tumor. In addition, the substance can also treat chronic hepatitis. 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 alcoholism.
4. Cucumber promotes metabolism and resists aging.
Cucumber is also a beauty vegetable. Cucumber contains cucumber enzyme, which can promote human metabolism and excrete toxins. Vitamin C can whiten skin, maintain skin elasticity and inhibit the formation of melanin. Eat or stick to it often.
It can effectively resist skin aging, reduce wrinkles and prevent cheilitis and angular stomatitis. Old cucumber is rich in vitamin E, which can prolong life and resist aging. Cucumber enzyme in cucumber has strong biological activity and can
Effectively promote body metabolism.
5. Cucumber can lose weight
Cucumber is a good product to lose weight. Fresh cucumber also contains propanedioic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat. Cucumber also contains cellulose, which plays a certain role in promoting intestinal peristalsis, accelerating excretion and lowering cholesterol. Cucumber is low in calories and is an ideal diet vegetable for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes and obesity.
6, cucumber has diuretic, heat and water, detoxification effect.
Cucumber has diuretic effect, which helps to remove potentially harmful substances such as uric acid from blood. Cucumber is sweet and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat, benefiting water and detoxifying. It has a unique effect on diuresis due to chest heat, and also has obvious effects on dehumidification, intestine moistening and analgesia. In addition, cucumber can also treat burns, scabies and so on. In addition, cucumber vine has a good effect on lowering blood pressure and cholesterol.