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CUCUMBER

Versatile vegetable

Fresh, picked, boiled, accompanying meat and fish...cucumber is a

versatile vegetable with aphrodisiac and cosmetic properties. With high content in water, this refreshing food provide fibre, perfect to eat healthy.

Origins of cucumber

Original from Asia, specifically from India, where it’s known from more than 3.000 years. When it came to Egypt become one of the favourite foods of the pharaohs. Appeared in Europe in the 10th century. Spanish export to America.

Cucumber varieties

There are a lot of types of cucumber, depending on size, shape, colour, bitterness or country of origin although the main classification is between two big groups: cucumber and pickles.

● Pickles: small and green vegetable. Between 9-12 cm.

● Pepino: are consumed fresh, big vegetables with different shapes: oval, cylindrical medium long and cylindrical long.

Cucumber varieties

● Oval Cucumber: short cucumbers, with oval shape and yellowish colour.

● Cylindrical medium long cucumber: Ashley is the most known variety, dark green in the harvest and yellow when mature. A few thorns, bitterness and with a size of 18-20 cm.

● Cylindrical long cucumber: Long English is a cucumber green, with a lot of thorns and a size between 26 and 28 cm.

Agrosol varieties

This season in Agrosol we have this three varieties of cucumber:

• Dutch Cucumber: in Spain it was introduced by germans 30 years ago. It has 40 cm of lenght and free of thorns. Smooth skin, bright green and bitterness.

• Midi cucumber: smaller, more handy and easy for distribution, ideal as healthy snack.

Best time for cucumber

Thanks of its high content of water, cucumber is perfect por summer.

In fact, its season was summer but today thanks to intensive agriculture people can enjoy this vegetable practically all year.

How to keep them

When we are going to buy cucumbers we have to be sure that they

have dark green skin, without spots or defects. We will avoid cucumbers with an unappetizing colour and also cucumbers too

long, that usually are more bitter.

How to keep them

If we are going to buy a cucumber we have to push it in the sides, if that part is white, it means that the cucumber was harvested a long time ago.

In the fridge cucumbers can be 3-5 days and if we cut them we have to wrap them in transparent film to preserve better.

Cucumbers can’t tolerate extreme temperatures so we can’t freeze them.

Benefits of cucumber

Compound mainly by water, cucumber has also fiber and a lot of benefits like these:

● Protects our brain● Remove the bags under

the eyes● Antioxidant properties● Against bad breath● Controls stress● Improve our digestive

health● Keep us in our weight● Good for our heart

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