The summer is hot and the sun is hot and dry.
Cool and juicy fruits and vegetables have become people’s hearts.
Imagine: take out the cucumber soaked in ice water, spin dry the water drops slightly, chew, swallow happily, and slide from the larynx to the stomach with the fresh and clean water of the cucumber, which is indescribable and comfortable.
Comfortable to comfortable, there are always people worried:
It is said that hormones are used for prickly top flowers?
Is the curved cucumber due to medicine?
Can cucumber slices be used as facial mask to beautify?
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Come on, take a reassurance before eating cucumbers.
Is the cucumber with flowers stimulated by hormones?
With flowers on the top, it does not prove that hormones were used.
Cucumber flower is a perennial flower. After pollination, it can not fall off immediately, but wait for the cucumber fruit to grow for a while before falling off.
So [top flower], to some extent, becomes a sign to judge whether cucumber is tender or old.
In the actual planting process, in order to prevent young fruits from falling off, growers will smear anti-falling hormone-p-chlorophenoxyacetic acid on the fruit stalk of young fruits, which is a plant hormone and will not affect human health.
If this plant hormone is accidentally smeared on the flower, it will make the flower adhere more closely to the top of the cucumber, or it will not fall off at all.
Later, growers found that such cucumbers were more popular with consumers. As a result, anti-falling element treatment of cucumber flowers has become a standard procedure for some cucumber planting.
Those cucumbers with fresh flowers as new as bloom are usually treated in this way.
However, there is really no need to worry too much. As mentioned earlier, the amount of these plant hormones themselves will not be very large and will not act on the human body.
Cucumbers with prickly top flowers should be eaten at ease.
Is the straight cucumber sprayed with medicine?
Straight cucumbers are sprayed with medicine! Curved cucumbers are natural!
This rumor was once widely spread.
In fact, straight cucumber and curved cucumber are related to cucumber varieties and growth conditions.
When the temperature, light, fertilizer and other conditions are better, the plant grows healthily and more straight cucumbers appear. When the temperature and light are not added and the water and nutrients are insufficient, it is easy to grow crooked and bend. But it tastes basically the same.
Straight or curved does not mean whether to spray or not.
Do you want to peel cucumbers?
Worried about pesticide residues?
First of all, you don’t have to be afraid when you hear [pesticide residues].
In theory, there is no problem in eating food that meets the relevant standards of the Ministry of Agriculture and food safety.
If you are always worried, then there are three ways.
1. Regular channels, their own trust channels to buy fruits and vegetables.
2. Rinse and scrub under tap water for more than 30 seconds.
3. If there are pesticide residues, they are basically on the skin. If you don’t trust to eat, peel and eat decisively.
Can Cucumber Mask Nourish Skin?
It is a bit demanding to let cucumbers nourish facial skin.
On the one hand, the main ingredient of cucumber is water. At most, when applying it, let the skin wet a little. Vitamin C and vitamin E related to skin care are not high in cucumber.
On the other hand, these moisture and vitamins will not be absorbed by the skin.
Cucumber, or used to eat, the most cost-effective!
Cucumber has enough moisture and is a good product for relieving summer heat.
Cucumber is a water melon.
In the basic components of fresh cucumber, carbohydrate accounts for 2.9%, fat accounts for 0.2%, protein accounts for 0.8%, and after removing a small amount of minerals and vitamins, the bulk is actually 95.8% of water.
Therefore, we can even say that eating cucumbers is basically equivalent to drinking mineral water with some vitamins.
Although the nutrition does not seem to be high, it cannot be refreshed and replenished.
Think about the scene of chewing cucumbers, don’t you feel refreshed?
Doctor Clove’s Private Menu
Finally, as usual, let’s have a small menu. A refreshing summer dish: lobster sauce mixed with cucumber.
1. Peel cucumbers, slice them with a knife and put them into the refrigerator for later use.
2. Mix lobster sauce, garlic powder, white vinegar, white sugar and salt in an appropriate amount and mix them into dipping juice.
3. Mix the dip juice with cucumber and mix well.
Just today, enjoy the cool and delicious cucumbers in summer.