Cucumbers are made up of about 96% water and contain beneficial nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, and fiber. Eating them unpeeled maximizes their nutritional value. Cucumbers may help ...

What does it mean to be alive? A new study on an astonishing sea creature suggests the answer may be more complicated than it seems. Some amputated fragments of Psolus fabricii — a type of sea ...

Giada De Laurentiis gives a viral cucumber salad an Italian twist with Calabrian chili paste and colatura. Anchovy oil, a key Caesar salad ingredient, is Giada's secret to elevating this refreshing ...

This smashed chili crisp cucumber salad has layers of flavors and textures from craggy cucumber chunks, fiery chili crisp and a simple soy and vinegar dressing. Cucumbers seem to be that elusive ...

Structural variants (SVs) represent an important yet underexplored component of plant genome diversity. Here we present a graph-based cucumber pangenome constructed from 39 reference-quality genomes, ...

Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions. Yet breeding improved varieties—plants that are more resilient, produce ...

Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...

This pretty, vibrant 3-ingredient cucumber salad is monochromatic in color, but anything but basic in flavor. With several ingredients working overtime in different preparations, this recipe comes ...

If you’re scanning the produce aisles at the grocery store, it can be difficult to recognize a zucchini vs. cucumber from a few steps away. Frankly, it can still be difficult to tell these two oblong, ...

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Audrey Morgan is a senior editor at Food & Wine with over eight years of experience covering food and drinks. She has held staff positions at Liquor.com and Food Network Magazine, and her work has ...

Take a look at squirting cucumber explosive seed dispersal in real time and slowed down. Credit: Helen Gorges/CC BY-NC-ND One doesn’t normally associate ballistics with botany, but most of us don’t ...