Enjoy these helpful tips for cooking traditionaly diabetic and healthy foods. Besides from adding a nice aroma, flavor and visual appeal, herbs and spices make for an excellent substitute to salt and sodium.Herbs and spices have a long rich and rewarding history. Since the beginning of time, herbs have been known more for their medicinal values, than for the ability to enhance the flavor of foods. In the early days spices were once considered as a trading commodity and form or money. I guess you could say that people made a killing off of these flavor enhancers. In both cases scarcity made herbs and spices very appealing.
How to Wash Herbs
Wash herbs when you are ready to use them. Wash smaller amounts of herbs thoroughly under running water. Shake off moisture or spin dry in a salad spinner. Pat off any remaining moisture with clean paper towels.
If you’re washing a larger amount of herbs at one time, treat them as you would salad greens. Place in a clean sink or deep bowl filled with cold water and swish around. Lift from the water and transfer to another bowl so dirt and grit remain in the water. Pour out the water and repeat the washing process in clean water until dirt and grit are gone and the water is clear.
NOTE: If you plan to harvest a large amount of herbs from a home garden, consider washing them down with a hose the day before to help remove any large particles of dirt or grit that might be on the leaves.
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Reported Health Benefits :Cucumber is best natural diuretic known, secreting and promoting the flow of urine. Helps in kidney and urinary bladder disease. Liver disease Pancreatic disease It does not matter too much that the reason for this effect is not clear. What is important is that it helps many sufferers. Although the whole juice is the best skin lotion it is worth remembering that the peel itself, like lemon peel, should always be retained and used on the hands especially after they have been in a strong detergent or in very hot water.
It is not necessary to rub hard - indeed skin care with cucumber should be a gentle, fragrant art.
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon read more wilkipedia.org
Plant family ...Cucumbers are in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon.
It is not necessary to rub hard - indeed skin care with cucumber should be a gentle, fragrant art.
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon read more wilkipedia.org
Plant family ...Cucumbers are in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon.
Cucumber's
When the cucumber became important as a health food in the eighteenth century, it did not take long for people to forget those medical properties which had been well-known first of all to the Greeks and Romans and then later to the Arab physicians. 
Today we see the cucumber as a provider of a very healthy juice beneficial for its properties as an increaser of the flow of urine and as a complement to the effects of celery and carrot juice for rheumatic conditions, while at the same time being a soothing skin lotion.
Japanese research in the first half of this century indicated that there was a valuable substance present in the cucumber juice for the treatment of the whole intestinal tract. Sad to say this work has not been pursued and the active factor still retains the secret of its identity.
Other health benefits of cucumber is derived from the fact that it is very low in calories, about 4 per ounce (54KJ per 100g) being an average figure.
Very high potassium contents have been claimed for the plant which from the most up-to-date analyses available would seem to be an exaggeration. The vitamin content is also generally to be found between low and average for the edible vegetable. Nevertheless, cucumber juice is certainly beneficial the treatment of rheumatic conditions.
Cucumber is a fruit that came from the same family as pumpkin, zucchini and other squashes. It has a dark green rind and white succulent flesh. There are 2 types of cucumbers the pickling varieties and the slicing varieties. The pickling variety is relatively small (2 - 4 inches long).
Nutritive Values : Per 100 gm.
Vitamin A 180 I.U.
Niacin Trace
Vitamin C 9 mg.
Calcium 32 mg.
Iron 1.8 mg.
Phosphorus 27 mg.
Potassium 80 mg.
Carbohydrates 17 gm.
Calories 70
Today we see the cucumber as a provider of a very healthy juice beneficial for its properties as an increaser of the flow of urine and as a complement to the effects of celery and carrot juice for rheumatic conditions, while at the same time being a soothing skin lotion.
Japanese research in the first half of this century indicated that there was a valuable substance present in the cucumber juice for the treatment of the whole intestinal tract. Sad to say this work has not been pursued and the active factor still retains the secret of its identity.
Other health benefits of cucumber is derived from the fact that it is very low in calories, about 4 per ounce (54KJ per 100g) being an average figure.
Very high potassium contents have been claimed for the plant which from the most up-to-date analyses available would seem to be an exaggeration. The vitamin content is also generally to be found between low and average for the edible vegetable. Nevertheless, cucumber juice is certainly beneficial the treatment of rheumatic conditions.
Cucumber is a fruit that came from the same family as pumpkin, zucchini and other squashes. It has a dark green rind and white succulent flesh. There are 2 types of cucumbers the pickling varieties and the slicing varieties. The pickling variety is relatively small (2 - 4 inches long).
Nutritive Values : Per 100 gm.
Vitamin A 180 I.U.
Niacin Trace
Vitamin C 9 mg.
Calcium 32 mg.
Iron 1.8 mg.
Phosphorus 27 mg.
Potassium 80 mg.
Carbohydrates 17 gm.
Calories 70
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