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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Cucumber and Its 16 Health Benefits

Information about Cucumber

Cucumber is told to be good for health and skin and is being used for many different functions as food diets and skin diet. This great cucumber is a kind of vegetable that are available all seasons. We can easily find it at everywhere, so is very common for daily consumption. Cucumber has good taste and variety notorious. It contains an excellent source of Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Calcium, Iron, Potassium, Phosphorus, Carbohydrates, and Calories that all are good for our body. Read on to know more about it—Cucumber.

Nutritional Value of Cucumber: 100 gm of raw
• Carbohydrates – 3.63 gm
• Sugars – 1.67 gm
• Dietary Fiber – 0.5 gm
• Fat – 0.11 gm
• Protein – 0.65 gm
• Thiamin (Vitamin B1) – 0.027 mg
• Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) – 0.033 mg
• Niacin (Vitamin B3) – 0.098 mg
• Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5) – 0.259 mg
• Vitamin B6 – 0.040 mg
• Folate (Vitamin B9) – 7 μg
• Vitamin C – 2.8 mg
• Calcium – 16 mg
• Iron – 0.28 mg
• Magnesium – 13 mg
• Phosphorus – 24 mg
• Potassium – 147 mg
• Zinc 0.20 mg
Health & Nutrition Benefits of Eating Cucumbers
1. Helps for the problem of high and low blood pressure.
2. Reduce heat and inflammation when applied the raw cucumber on the skin.
3. Helps to control cases of eczema, arthritis and gout by daily used of cucumber.
4. Treats heartburn, gastritis, and ulcer by drinking the fresh cucumber juice.
5. The cleaning and cooling of cucumber is good for skin.
6. By putting the cucumber slice on the eyes can reduce swelling and soothing them.
7. Beneficial for who are suffering from lung, chest, and stomach problems.
8. The Erepsin, the enzyme the cucumber has helps in protein digestion.
9. Cucumber juice adds with carrot juice, lettuce and spinach helps for growing of hair.
10. Cucumber juice add with carrot juice is good to excessive uric in the body.
11. Prevent from splitting of nails of the fingers and toes.
12. Beneficial for who has diabetes problem
13. Good for teeth and gums, especially the case of pyorrhea.
14. Helps in liver disease.
15. Treats pancreatic disease.
16. Helps in kidney and urinary bladder disease.
Cucumber is also used to ingredient more productions for daily life consumption including dish-washing liquid, shampooing, and others cosmetic for skin. It is mostly good smell as well as prosperous of vitamin and aroma within natural. If using other productions, which makes from cucumber, you will experience that how it is fantastic.

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