Cucumbers

[TheFishman1]

1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.

2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.

3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.

4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.

5 Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!

6.. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation

8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don't have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.

9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!

10. Stressed out and don't have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.

11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don't have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.

12. Looking for a 'green' way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won't leave streaks and won't harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.

13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

[TacoBoy]

Tilac Loves Cucumbers to relieve stress.

Siow Siow, Set laow Set laow

Hear Carrots will do in a pinch

Or the local favorite Plha Lie

Edited March 31, 2011 by TacoBoy

[mogoso]

I had no idea that cukes were so useful other than being tasty. Good stuff.

[orang37]

Sawasdee Khrup, Khun TheFishman1,

Many thanks for this encyclopedic rendering of the benefits of cucumber !

Humbly suggest this is the kind of useful thread (on food, household hints, and local shopping tips) that could be useful as part of a "pinned topic" here on this forum.

best, ~o:37;

Edited April 1, 2011 by orang37

[Ricardo]

I hear that they also have aphrodisiac-properties, no wonder local farmers are planting more cucumbers, this year !

[Thakkar]

Great info, Fishman, Thanks.

Here's a quick recipe:

Add some grated cucumber to plain yoghurt. Mix in some well-diced or squashed banana. Makes a nice healthy dip to eat with warm pita bread, tortilla or paratha.

[Semper]

A cucumber is 95% water. As such, aside from some fiber, it has relatively little nutritional value (though it will help keep you from getting dehydrated!)

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[Raindancer]

A cucumber is 95% water. As such, aside from some fiber, it has relatively little nutritional value (though it will help keep you from getting dehydrated!)

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You have only chosen to copy the opening line of the website regarding cucumbers. Try typing in the search box "cucumber vitamins" and you will find that Fishman is correct. So it actually does have nutritional value and is one of the vegetables recommended as part of the 5 a day veg and fruit rule.

Your post appears misleading and is quoted out of full context regarding all of a cucumbers properties.

[jko]

Most 'amazing' things arriving by email are either hoaxes, false or exaggerated, and people should check them before sending them on - alas, most folks don't. bother.

I suspect this one is a mixture of fact and fabrication. Snopes is checking so we'll see what they conclude. The link is at:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cucumber.asp

[uptheos]

So versatile and so cheap in the Thai markets.

Can't go wrong if you keep a few cucumbers handy.

[lbjcb]

they are also good for those with short comings in the trouser department when trying to attract ladys

[Drew Aitch]

Here's a quick recipe: Add some grated cucumber to plain yoghurt. Mix in some well-diced or squashed banana. Makes a nice healthy dip to eat with warm pita bread, tortilla or paratha.

Talking of Pita Bread, is is available in CM? I haven't been able to find it in any TOPS supermarkets or Tesco.

Tks

Aitch

[Thakkar]

Here's a quick recipe: Add some grated cucumber to plain yoghurt. Mix in some well-diced or squashed banana. Makes a nice healthy dip to eat with warm pita bread, tortilla or paratha.

Talking of Pita Bread, is is available in CM? I haven't been able to find it in any TOPS supermarkets or Tesco.

Tks

Aitch

I can always find some at Rimping whenever I want any.

Also, there's a Greek/middle east type restaurant in town called Jarusalem Falafel (or something like that). They probably will sell Pita bread for takeaway. There are other mid-east reaturants you could try like Sahara (Neimahemin. on the main rd near soi 17 or thereabouts) and The Garden Restaurant (Lebanese)

[Thakkar]

they are also good for those with short comings in the trouser department when trying to attract ladys

I'm reminded of a limerick:

A copper from Notingham Junction

Whose tool had lost its function

Fooled his good wife

For the rest of her life

By using his policeman's truncheon

Edited April 3, 2011 by Thakkar

[lannarebirth]

Except for pickles, I never regarded the cucumber very highly before coming to Thailand. I have to say though, both cukes and tomatoes are much more flavorful here and eat them often.

[Drew Aitch]

I can always find some (Pita Bread,), at Rimping whenever I want any.

Thanks for that Thakkar. It would be at the supermarket furthest away from me, and the only one i hadn't yet looked in Still, the good news is that it's available in the city, so thanks once again for posting Now, who's for cucumber and pitta bread. Hmm! sounds a tad on the bland side that!

Aitch

Edited April 3, 2011 by Drew Aitch