Is cucumber a "hormone melon"? Reminder: Try to eat less of this cucumber.

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, can meet the demand of delicious food in our daily life whether it is stir-fried, boiled soup, cold salad or dipped in sauce.

Especially in the hot summer, people like to mix a plate of cold cucumber when drinking beer and eating barbecue, which is refreshing and refreshing.

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

So is cucumber really a hormone melon? Often eat cucumber can harm the body and cause cancer? Let's take a look at it 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 non-toxic, and enters the stomach, spleen and large intestine.

It can bring diuretic, heat-removing, heat-clearing and detoxification effects, and has a certain effect on sore throat, polydipsia, fire scald and fire inflammation.

For female friends, eating some cucumbers properly can bring the effect of losing weight. From this, we can also see that cucumber can bring a series of benefits to health. In addition, cucumber also contains many nutrients. Let's look at the table below:

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Is cucumber a "hormone melon"?

Maybe we have all heard the saying: "When the cucumber is ripe, the flowers will fall from the top of the head." But now in the vegetable market, we can see 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 after maturity.

Regarding this question, researcher Wang Qiang, director of the Institute of Agricultural Products Quality Standards of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that the contraceptive 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.

However, it is not the same substance as the contraceptive mentioned by people. Contraceptive pills belong to the role of animal hormones and will not promote the growth and development of plants.

In other words, the use of contraceptives has no effect on plants. The reason why some cucumbers on the market still carry some flowers is actually caused by the characteristics of biology department.

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

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Does cucumber have bitter taste and cause cancer?

Before answering this question, let's first understand why cucumbers have a certain bitterness. In fact, the bitterness 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 insect invasion.

However, most cucumbers sold in the market now are obtained through long-term breeding, among which cucurbitacin content is very low, and generally no bitterness can be tasted.

Of course, some cucumbers will have some obvious bitterness because of the high content of cucurbitacin. What is the reason for the high content of cucurbitacin?

For example, there are some problems in the growth of cucumber, such as malnutrition, lack of fertilizer, insufficient illumination and poor soil, which will 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 too much nitrogen fertilizer in cucumbers and make cucumbers bitter.

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Reminder: Try to eat less of this cucumber.

Under normal circumstances, it is recommended that you don't suffer from bitter cucumber, because we have no way to know what causes bitter cucumber.

If there are too many pesticides, it will easily bring adverse effects on 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 is easy to 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 color of 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. If there are many thorns, the cucumber is relatively fresh; if there are few thorns, the cucumber is not very fresh.

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