Cucumber and salad

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Cucumber Tomato Salad is the best of summer’s harvest. Crisp cucumbers and luscious tomatoes tossed in a bright and creamy lemon poppy seed dressing. This tomato cucumber salad recipe is my newest obsession.

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Asian Cucumber Salad: Zesty, Crunchy & Refreshing!

Add some crunch to your day! Try this crisp, tangy Asian Cucumber Salad—perfect for healthy snacking or as a fresh side.

Ingredients:

2 large cucumbers, thinly sliced

1/4 cup rice vinegar

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp sesame oil

2 tsp sugar

1 clove garlic, minced

1 tsp toasted sesame seeds

2 green onions, sliced

Fresh cilantro or mint (optional)

Salt, to taste

Instructions:

In a bowl, whisk together rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and garlic.

Add sliced cucumbers and green onions. Toss to coat.

Season with salt as needed.

Garnish with sesame seeds and fresh herbs.

Serve chilled for extra crunch!

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09/20/2023

Traditional cultivars produce male blossoms first, then female, in about equivalent numbers. Newer gynoecious hybrid cultivars produce almost all female blossoms. They may have a pollenizer cultivar interplanted, and the number of beehives per unit area is increased, but temperature changes induce male flowers even on these plants, which may be sufficient for pollination to occur.[7]

In 2009, an international team of researchers announced they had sequenced the cucumber genome.[8]

09/20/2023

The fruit of typical cultivars of cucumber is roughly cylindrical, but elongated with tapered ends, and may be as large as 62 centimeters (24 in) long and 10 centimeters (4 in) in diameter.[5]

Cucumber fruits consist of 95% water (see nutrition table). In botanical terms, the cucumber is classified as a pepo, a type of botanical berry with a hard outer rind and no internal divisions. However, much like tomatoes and squashes, it is often perceived, prepared, and eaten as a vegetable.[6]

09/20/2023

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