Cucumbers as Food.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2498, 29 August 1890, Page 3

Cucumbers as Food.

people are under the impression tFßcamber is very indigestible ; and to they eat it they do so under protest, *ith apprehensions of possibly dire How this delusion can it is difficult to say, unless it [t**t cucumber is often eaten with Ftotnd other indigestible table friends. r®otthe cucumber, however, but the that sits so heavy upon our r**’i throne. Cucumber, in fact, is pdigwtible when eaten properly. It P ot . indeed, be otherwise, when it is ijjtobered that it consists mainly of i* 1 ) and that those parts which are l**ter are almost exclusively cells of PI Japid growth. In eating cucumber to cut it into thin slices, and to them thoroughly. Even the and the pepper that are so often F to it are of service to digestion if

taken in excess. The cucumber, as everyone knows, belongs to the melon tribe ; but in our somewhat cold country it does not grow to any very large size, and therefore it is firmer and looks less digestible than its congener, the mob n.— Hospital.