As Cool as a Cucumber

     As a Cool as a Cucumber...

     Few foods are as good for you than a delicious and crunchy cucumber. "Cucumbers are naturally low in calories, carbohydrates, sodium, fat, and cholesterol," said Megan Ware, a registered dietitian nutritionist in Orlando, Florida. There are just 16 calories in a cup of cucumber with its peel, and 15 calories without. In this cup, you will also get about 4 percent of your daily potassium and vitamin C, and also 3 percent of your daily fiber. It also provides small amounts of vitamins K, C, A and magnesium, potassium, and manganese. Anyways, the point is, cucumbers are good for you. Here is the nutrition facts for 1/2 a cup of cucumber, according to the US Food and Drug Administration:

Nutrition Facts Cucumber, with peel, raw Serving size: 1/2 cup, sliced (52 g)   Calories from Fat 0 Calories 8 *Percent Daily Values (%DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Amt per Serving	%DV*		Amt per Serving	%DV*
Total Fat 0g	0%		Total Carbohydrate 2g	1%
Cholesterol 0mg	0%		Dietary Fiber 0g	0%
Sodium 1mg	2%		Sugars 0g
Protein 0g
Vitamin A	1%		Calcium	1%
Vitamin C	2%		Iron	1%

     Some other health benefits of cucumbers are hydration, cancer prevention, skin, bone health, and antioxidants, heart health, digestion, weight loss, brain health, and memory. More information on this can be found at this site.

     Anyways, cucumbers are great! If you start eating a few cucumbers every day now, you'll probably see some noticeable positive changes in your health.

     So the next time you have a snack, maybe instead of the frothy chocolate milkshake you always get, grab a gold ol' fresh crunchy cucumber.


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Additional:

8 Fun Facts about cucumbers...

1. Cucumbers contain so many nutrients, even though they are 95% water! That's even more than an average watermelon, at 92% water.
2. The waxy coating of a cucumber can actually remove ink. Rubbing the cucumber skin over the writing will gradually remove it. This actually works!
3. Pureed or sliced cucumber gives an almost instant relief to sun burnt skin. Just place some against the affected area. A natural, cheap, and quick 5 second treatment with no risk of infection.
4. Ashrita Furman managed to cut 27 cucumbers using a sword with his mouth on the 9th October 2013 in Sri Chinmoy Center, New York.
5. Cucumbers have been consumed for a very long time. They were first domestically grown in ancient India around the 2nd to 3rd millennia BC.
6. This is definitely one of the coolest facts ever for cucumbers: There can be a 20 degree Farenheit difference between the inside of a cucumber and the temperature outside!
7. Worldwide cucumber production was 57.5 million tons in 2010 alone, with 40.7 million tons of the production and export happening in China.
8. David Thomas from the UK grew the world's heaviest cucumber. Weighing in at 12.9 kg on the 26th September 2015 at the Malvern Autumn Show in Worcestershire, UK. He also holds the record for the heaviest parsnip as well.

(Credit to The Fact Site - An awesome website if you want to know more about something or if you're just plain bored and hungry for a interesting fact.)


Note: I was not hired by any cucumber advertiser or any other company to do this. This is MY opinion.