How correctly to eat cucumbers?

Cucumber is a very useful vegetable. Although it is 97% water, it also contains dietary fiber, magnesium, potassium, silicon, zinc, copper, vitamins K, E, C and PP. This vegetable is useful for cardiovascular diseases, intestinal diseases, as well as for kidney and liver diseases. How correctly to eat cucumbers, in order to consume all the useful substances contained in them?

Fresh cucumbers

Of course, fresh fruits are most useful. In addition, it is better to eat cucumber with skin. The fact that under the skin contains most of the vitamins, and when it is cut, the most useful layer in this vegetable is removed. Therefore it will be more useful to use fresh cucumbers with peel in different sandwiches and salads with lean dressing or simply eat buns and sweets instead of usual snacks.

But there are cucumbers with a skin can be only if you are sure that they do not have large doses of nitrates. For example, so you can eat cucumbers from your garden.

Salted and pickled cucumbers

And are pickled and salted cucumbers useful? Almost all trace elements are retained in cucumbers so treated. In addition, salted cucumbers increase appetite and promote good digestion. Therefore, you can make salads with pickled and pickled cucumbers, as well as stew pickled cucumbers with meat and cook various sauces with the addition of pickled cucumbers. Vitamins, unfortunately, almost all are destroyed. Therefore, one can not say unequivocally that such cucumbers are harmful, but still more will bring fresh vegetables.