Cucumber: food or cosmetic product?!!

Cucumber is a fantastic and healthy food choice, you can add it to your salad, eat it as a snack, cool with when it’s hot, or use it as a cosmetics product for your skin and eyes.

Cucumber is considered as a low-calorie, nutrient-dense vegetable (nutrient-dense means it has so much nutrient compared to its energy content).

Here are 7 health benefits of cucumber:

1. Skin and beauty Care

Its content of magnesium, potassium and silicon makes it a cosmetic product, using it and its juice in facial treatments.

Placing cooled slices of cucumber on the eyes can help reduce swallowing and puffed eyes.

Its silica content improves texture and strength of hair and nails.

Gets rid of bad breath.

2. Keeps you hydrated

It protects body against dehydration and heat exhaustion, because it’s made up of almost 95% from water. See the great benefits of water in Reward your skin and body with water.

3. Improves blood pressure levels

It helps in stabilizing blood pressure levels due to its fiber and minerals content.

4. Aids in Weight loss

It’s low-calories and empty-fat, with high fiber content, which is essential property of foods when it comes to weight loss.

5. Good source of Dietary Fiber

Its good content of fiber improves bowel movement, and elimination of wastes.

6. Reduces cancer risk

Studies show that eating more cucumber reduces chances of cancer, especially colon and colorectal cancer.

7. Lowers cholesterol levels