Cucumber is one of fruit that often we see on our lunch or dinner. It can be eaten raw or cooked. Its fresh taste makes cucumber becomes favorite ingredients in our salad and becomes one of the most important of food diet. Beside to be consumed, women often use it to eliminate the tiredness of eyes by using cucumber as eye pads. Cucumber plants had been cultivated in South Asia since 3000 years ago. But today it is widely spread to every country, recognized as one of food that has many benefits for health and often used for beauty treatment.
Cucumber (Cucumis Sativus) has a dark green skin and light green succulent flesh. Cucumber contains of vitamin B complex, vitamin C, Vitamin E, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, iron, dietary fiber, calories, carbohydrates, and potassium.
So, what are cucumber benefits for health? Cucumber has 90% of water in it, so when you eat raw cucumber, it can decrease the heat on your body. The high fiber on cucumber also beneficial for lowering the cholesterol and smoothing bowel movements. Moreover, it is an ancient secret that this fruit also can lower the hypertension especially because of hypersensitive to salt. Vitamin C’s content in cucumber will boost the immunity and vitamin E will prevent aging. But all the cucumber nutrition will be beneficial to your body if you consume it regularly and for long period. Remember, there is no instant result to get healthy.
The best way to consume cucumber is raw or juice, in order to preserve all the nutrition in it. In addition cucumber juice also can be combined it other vegetables or fruits. For example, cucumber-carrot juice is beneficial to release the excessive urine acid in your body (the causes of rheumatic). When you want to have thick hair, mix the cucumber with carrot, lettuce, and spinach then juice it.
As I told you before, cucumber also has many benefits for beauty. Yup, cucumber can be used as home facial remedy. Thus, for cucumber for beauty, on the next post I will give you some recipes to make a homemade cucumber facial mask.
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As all we know fruits are best for health. So using these for good health is a good idea. You have told here about Cucumber’s benefits and something really interesting about it that i did’nt know.So thanks for the post.
Greatings, Can i take a one small photo from your site?
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Great information with nice photos. As we all know fruits are must for health. Cucumber is a fruit which available easily in the market. You have told here many uses for cucumber. I am excited to try them.
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