How healthy are cucumbers?
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There is limited research showing that eating cucumbers – or their extracts – may benefit insulin, cholesterol, triglyceride and blood pressure levels.
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Amanda Schupak
NEW YORK – When Kimberly Dong, an associate professor of nutrition and public health at the Tufts University School of Medicine, names fruits and vegetables that offer the most nutrition a bite, cucumbers are not at the top of her list.
Still, she said, there are good reasons to eat them.
