Cucumber has become an inevitable part of people’s culinary. People often include this fruit into their menu. You can find a cucumber in hamburger as you find it as the complementary for another food. Cucumber is often consumed in a different manner. People often make a cucumber juice and drink it. It can be only cucumber juice or it can be mixed with other fruit. Why do people often include cucumber in their menus? It is because cucumber has various benefits for people’s body. Let’s find out the nutritional value of cucumbers.
The Origin of Cucumber
Cucumber is scientifically well known as Cucumis sativus. It becomes one of the melon family like cantaloupe and watermelon, and squash family like winter squash, summer squash, pumpkin and zucchini. Cucumber is often served with two types, pickling cucumbers and slicing cucumbers. Pickling cucumbers are small sliced cucumber, which is thin and then processed into pickles. The slicing cucumbers are large and thick sliced cucumbers for fresh consumption. Both of them have the nutritional value of cucumbers as the fresh cucumber.
