Will eating cucumbers at night make you fat?

You won’t gain weight. Although cucumbers contain a lot of water, which may cause obesity, cucumbers also contain acrylic acid that can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat, which can play a certain role in weight loss. Helps, and the effect is relatively obvious, so eating cucumbers at night will not make you gain weight.

Cucumber (scientific name: Cucumis sativus?L.) is an annual trailing or climbing herbaceous plant of the Cucurbitaceae family. The stems and branches are elongated, furrowed, and covered with white rough hairs. The tendrils are thin. The petiole is slightly rough, with rough hairs; the leaves are broadly ovate, heart-shaped, membranous, with triangular lobes and teeth. Monoecious.

Male flowers: Constant flowers clustered in the leaf axils; pedicels are slender and puberulent; corolla is yellow-white, and the corolla lobes are oblong-lanceolate. Female flowers: solitary or sparsely clustered; peduncle thick, pubescent; ovary rough. The fruit is oblong or cylindrical, yellow-green when ripe, and has a rough surface. Seeds are small, narrowly ovate, white, without edges, and both ends are sharply pointed. Flowering and fruiting period in summer.

Extended information

According to the distribution area and ecological characteristics of cucumber, it is divided into the following types:

1. South Asian type

Distributed in All over South Asia. The stems and leaves are thick, easy to branch, and the fruit is large. A single fruit weighs 1 to 5 kilograms. The fruit is short cylindrical or long cylindrical, with light skin, sparse tumors, and black or white spines. The skin is thick and the taste is light. It likes humidity and heat and strictly requires short days. There are many local varieties, such as Sikkim cucumber, China Banna cucumber and Zhaotong large cucumber.

2. Southern type

Distributed south of the Yangtze River in China and throughout Japan. The stems and leaves are luxuriant, resistant to humidity and heat, and it is a short-day plant with smaller fruits, sparse tumors, and many black thorns. The young fruits are green, green-white, yellow-white, and have a light taste; the ripe fruits are yellow-brown with reticulated patterns. Representative varieties include Kunming early cucumber, Guangzhou Erqing, Shanghai Yangxing, Wuhan herring gallbladder, Chongqing Dabai and Japan's Qingchang, Sagami Banbai, etc.

3. North China type

Distributed in the north of the Yellow River Basin in China, North Korea, Japan and other places. Plants have average growth potential, prefer natural conditions such as moist soil and sunny weather, and are not sensitive to the length of sunshine. The young fruit is club-shaped, green, with dense tumors and many white spines. Ripe fruit is yellow-white, without reticulation. Representative varieties include Shandong Xintai Mici, Beijing Dacheng, Tangshan Autumn Melon, Beijing Luffa Green, and hybrids Zhongnong 1101, Jinyan No. 1-7, Jinza No. 1, Jinza No. 2, Luchun 32, etc.

4. European and American type

Distributed throughout Europe and North America. The stems and leaves are lush, the fruit is cylindrical, medium in size, with sparse tumors and white thorns, and a light taste. The ripe fruit is light yellow or tan, and there are varieties in Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, and North America. European and American greenhouse cucumbers are distributed in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The stems and leaves are luxuriant, resistant to low temperature and low light, the fruit surface is smooth, light green, and the fruit is more than 1250px long. There are British greenhouse cucumbers, Dutch greenhouse cucumbers, etc.

5. Small cucumbers

Distributed throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. The plants are shorter and more branching. Many flowers and fruits. Representative varieties include Yangtze long-milk cucumber.