What is the reason why cucumber is bitter?
1, when the air temperature or ground temperature is lower than 13℃, the cell permeability decreases, the absorption of nutrients and water is inhibited, and cucumber is prone to bitter taste: if the greenhouse temperature is higher than 30℃ for a long time, cucumber will also be bitter.
2. Cucumber growing in an environment with excessive humidity will have bitter taste in some cases.
3. Variety reason: Cucumber plants are prone to produce mutant plants in the growth process, and cucumbers produced by bitter mutant plants are mostly bitter.
Eating bitter gourd has little effect on normal people, but some people with weak physical resistance may have symptoms such as diarrhea and nausea.
In addition, the tail of cucumber contains more picroside, which has anti-cancer effect, so don't throw away all the tail of cucumber.
The benefits of eating cucumber
Cucumber is a vegetable that people often eat. Sweet in taste and flat in nature, it has obvious effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Cucumber can also be used for beauty, whether it is eating cucumber or using cucumber as a mask.
Cucumber is rich in protein, sugar, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. At the same time, cucumber also contains malonic acid, cucurbitacin and soft fine fiber, which is the first choice for beauty beauty.
Extended data:
Cucumber (scientific name: cucumber? An annual creeping or climbing herb of Cucurbitaceae. Stems and branches are elongated, wrinkled, and white and rough. Tendrils are very thin. Petiole slightly rough, with rough hair; Leaf blade broadly ovate-cordate, membranous, lobes triangular, dentate. Monoecious. Male flowers: constant flowers clustered in leaf axils; Pedicel slender, puberulent; Corolla yellow-white, oblong-lanceolate corolla lobes. Female flowers: solitary or sparsely clustered; Pedicel stout, pilose; The ovary is rough. The fruit is oblong or cylindrical, yellow-green at maturity and rough on the surface. Seeds are small, narrowly ovate, white, borderless, and both ends are nearly acute. Summer flower and fruit period.
It is widely cultivated in all parts of China, and cultivated in greenhouses or plastic greenhouses in many areas. Now it is widely planted in temperate and tropical regions. Cucumber is one of the main vegetables in China in summer. Stems and vines have medicinal value, which can diminish inflammation, eliminate phlegm and relieve spasm.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-cucumber