Lead: Near summer, a large number of fresh vegetables are on the market, and among a series of vegetables, cucumber is an indispensable seasonal vegetable.

Cucumber, also known as cucumber and zucchini, whether it is stir-fried, soup, cold salad or dipping sauce, can meet our daily needs for delicious food.

Especially in hot summer, when people drink beer and eat barbecue, they also like to mix a plate of cold cucumber to refresh themselves.

However, the news of "not many red vegetables", "cucumber with thorns in the top flower coated with hormones" and "contraceptive cucumber" frequently appears on all our mobile phones.

So is cucumber really a hormone melon? Often eat cucumber can be harmful to the body and cause cancer? Let's get to know each other today.

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First of all, let's learn about the nutritional components of cucumber.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, cucumber is sweet, cool, bitter and nontoxic, and enters the stomach, spleen and large intestine.

Can bring diuretic, heat-clearing, heat-clearing and detoxification effects, and also has a certain curative effect on sore throat, polydipsia, fire scald and fire inflammation.

For female friends, eating some cucumbers properly can bring the effect of losing weight. It can also be seen that cucumber can bring a series of benefits to health. In addition, cucumber also contains many nutrients. Let's take a look at the following table:

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Is cucumber a "hormone melon"?

Perhaps we have all heard the saying, "When the cucumber is ripe, the flowers will fall from the top of your head." But now in the vegetable market, we can see that there are still some flowers left on the cucumber.

So many people think that this is because cucumber is stimulated by birth control pills, so there will be a problem that cucumber has not fallen off when it is cooked.

Regarding this question, researcher Wang Qiang, director of the Institute of Agricultural Products Quality Standards of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that contraception cucumber is a rumor!

In the process of cucumber planting, some plants need to use plant growth regulators, which can promote the growth and development of cucumber and have certain hormonal effects.

But it's not the same substance as what people call birth control pills. Contraceptive pills belong to the role of animal hormones and will not promote the growth and development of plants.

In other words, birth control pills have no effect on the use of plants. The reason why some cucumbers sold in the market bring some flowers is actually caused by the characteristics of the biology department.

These cucumbers belong to parthenocarpy, which is not much different from cucumbers without flowers and can be used normally.

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Cucumber has a bitter taste and can cause cancer?

Before answering this question, let's first understand why cucumbers have a certain bitterness. In fact, the bitter taste of cucumber is caused by the high content of cucurbitacin.

Cucurbitacin plays an important role in the development of cucumber, which can help cucumber prevent the invasion of insects.

However, most cucumbers sold in the market now are obtained through long-term breeding, and the cucurbitacin content is very low, so they generally can't taste any bitterness.

Of course, some cucumbers will taste bitter because of their high cucurbitacin content. What is the reason for the high content of cucurbitacin?

For example, in the growth process of cucumber, there are some problems such as malnutrition, lack of fertilizer, insufficient light and poor land, which easily lead to abnormal growth of cucumber, abnormal increase of cucurbitacin content and bitter taste of cucumber.

Especially when the light is insufficient, the photosynthesis of plants will be obviously weakened, which will affect the normal growth of plants and easily affect the development of roots.

At this time, plants can not absorb enough water and nutrients, which will slow down the growth of cucumber and greatly increase the rate of melon production.

In addition, in order to make cucumbers grow better, some farmers encourage them to apply a lot of nitrogen fertilizer, which will easily lead to excessive nitrogen fertilizer in cucumbers and make cucumbers bitter.

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Reminder: Try to eat less of this cucumber.

In general, it is recommended that you don't suffer from bitter cucumbers, because we have no way to know what causes bitter cucumbers.

If there are too many pesticides, it is easy to bring adverse effects to health, so we try to avoid eating this bitter cucumber in our daily life.

In addition, if cucurbitacin in cucumber enters the body in large quantities, it will easily stimulate the stomach and easily lead to diarrhea and abdominal pain.

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How to buy cucumbers in daily life?

1, when buying cucumbers, it depends on whether the color of cucumbers is green and even;

2. If the cucumber is yellow, it means that the maturity is too high and the water content is generally low;

3. Whether there are small thorns on the surface of cucumber can also judge the freshness of cucumber. Cucumber is fresher with more thorns, but not so fresh with less thorns.

The most important thing is whether the surface is damaged, there will be no infiltration of environmental microorganisms, and there will be no water loss.