Description
Farm 28
🚚 Fastest Delivery Time : 2-day delivery.
🐝 Supplier / Origin：Farm 28 / Fung Kat Heung, Kam Tin
🔖 Certification： HKORC Certificate No. : C14014
🌱 About the Producer / Supplier：
Covering an area of 100,000 square feet, it is located in Fung Kat Heung, Kam Tin, Yuen Long. With the aim of growing healthy crops, the public can enjoy high-quality and safe food at a low price, and hope that when purchasing locally grown fruits, the public can understand the importance of reducing carbon emissions on the environment, so as to achieve the goal of human beings and the greater world. Natural complementarity and harmonious coexistence. And in the future, we will grow more different healthy fruits and vegetables to provide customers with choices.
🌱 Supplier Productss：
🛍 Product Information：
Binomial Name：Cucumis sativus L.
Chinese Name：青瓜
Other Names：Cucumber
Product Description：Sweet, cool in nature. It has the effects of water, heat-clearing, detoxification, thirst-quenching, edema, diuresis, laxative, anti-inflammatory and weight loss. Cucumber is rich in water, which can bring about the effect of quenching thirst, and at the same time replenish the water lost by the body, which helps to maintain normal body temperature; rich in vitamin C, it can prevent the precipitation of melanin and achieve whitening effect; cucumber contains propanol two Acid, which inhibits the conversion of sugars into fat, is considered a diet food. The tender seeds are rich in vitamin E, which can maintain the youthful vitality of the skin, and also has the function of preventing women from miscarriage and increasing men's energy.
Originating in northern India, it spread eastward and was introduced to China, so it is called "courgette".
Variety：The stems of cucumbers are covered with hairs, rich in juice, and the appearance of the leaves has 3-5 lobes covered with downy hairs. The fruit is long or rod-shaped, with small thorns or tumor-like protrusions on the surface, white pulp, crisp and tender taste, generally about 15 to 30 inches long.
centimeter. Leaves cordate-ovate, 3-7 lobed. Flowers unisexual, monoecious, yellow; yellow-green when mature; seeds white, oblong.
In fact, there are many varieties of cucumber, including ground cucumber, frame cucumber, summer cucumber, autumn cucumber; there are also Ningyang big thorn melon, Beijing thorn melon and so on. In addition, greenhouse cucumbers have become popular in recent years. There are varieties from Japan or China, which are crisp and sweet. Small in shape, it is mostly eaten raw.
Supply Season：The main production period is from April to October each year, and it is available in Hong Kong throughout the year.
Storage Method：Cucumbers can be wrapped in toilet paper and stored in a cool place, or sealed with plastic wrap and placed in the refrigerator. Sealed and placed in the refrigerator, they can be stored for about 10 days.
#Should Be / Avoided：
Nutritional and medicinal value
Cucumbers contain anti-inflammatory flavonols, such as phytonin, as well as various other antioxidants, including cucurbitacins.
It has extremely high water content and contains propanodioic acid, which can inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat and is considered a weight loss food. Tender seeds contain more vitamin E and should be avoided unless necessary. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and can remove heat, diuresis and detoxification.
Cucumber contains a vitamin C decomposing enzyme, which will destroy the vitamin C in other vegetables and fail to achieve the effect of supplementing nutrition. Cucumbers are generally believed to have skin-beautifying properties, and women often put cucumber slices on their faces in the hope of improving facial skin.
Suitable for: It can be consumed by everyone, especially suitable for diabetic patients. It is also suitable for people with dry mouth and irritability, constipation, sore throat, obesity, patients with chickenpox, measles, whooping cough, and people with high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and edema.
Contraindications: Cucumber is cold in nature and should be eaten less by patients with spleen and stomach deficiency, chronic dysentery, stomach problems, and vomiting. Because cucumber is cool in nature, it is not suitable for those with abdominal pain and diarrhea. In addition, those suffering from scabies, athlete's foot and swelling should not eat to avoid aggravating the condition. Tuberculosis patients and those during menstruation should avoid eating raw and cold cucumber, especially those with cold dysmenorrhea.
It is advisable to eat cucumber during pregnancy
In addition to women preparing for pregnancy, pregnant women can also eat cucumber. Eating it will not cause adverse effects on the fetus, but they should be careful not to consume excessive amounts. Mothers can also eat cucumbers during confinement, but they should be careful not to eat them raw. It is best to fry them or boil them in hot water before eating them.
Property Coolness
five flavors sweet
Efficacy: heat-clearing and detoxifying, quenching thirst, diuresis, diuresis, digestion promotion, lipid-lowering, anti-inflammatory and analgesic
Main nutrients
Cucumber contains vitamin B1, which can improve brain and nervous system functions and calm the mind. Cucumber is also rich in fiber, which can strengthen gastrointestinal motility and smooth bowel movements.
Edible effects
Cucumber has dehumidifying, diuretic, lipid-lowering, analgesic, and digestive effects. In particular, the fiber contained in cucumber can promote the excretion of putrefactive food in the intestines, and the propanol, ethanol and propanedioic acid contained in cucumber can also inhibit the conversion of sugars into fat, which is good for obese people, high blood pressure, and hyperlipidemia. It is beneficial for patients and women preparing for pregnancy.
*Food Compatibility：
should:
1. Cucumber and tomato: Cucumber and tomato also contain a moderate amount of potassium, which helps maintain the sodium level in the body, prevents edema and stabilizes blood pressure. The other two are rich in vitamin C, which helps to enhance human immunity.
2. Cucumber and apple: Cucumber and apple contain proper amount of dietary fiber and organic acid components, which can stimulate the peristalsis of the intestinal tract and help solve the problem of constipation.
avoid:
1. Cucumber and digitalis: Cucumber and digitalis should not be eaten at the same time, as this will affect the absorption of the drug.
Matching
Appropriate effect
Honey laxative and detoxification
Vinegar Appetizers
Cooking Tips：The edible part is melon fruit. After soaking in water for 5 to 10 minutes, scrub the surface with a soft brush, or peel and wash. In the process of picking and transportation, cucumbers are often contaminated by bacteria, and the surface of the melons is stained with coliform bacteria, dysentery bacillus, or even typhoid bacillus and roundworm eggs. Therefore, when eating raw, it must be washed and then scalded with boiling water.
Notes：Eating too much tends to accumulate heat and generate dampness.
When using tetracycline family antibiotics, eat less alkaline food such as cucumber, because the same food will reduce the solubility of tetracycline, thereby reducing the efficacy of the medicine.
Dishes：
Salad with garlic cucumber, hot and sour cucumber, cucumber stir-fried beef.
🥗 Product Categories (English)： Cucumber
Google Recipe 🔍 :
English CookPad 🍳 :
BBC Good Food 🥙 :
