Cucumber

Cucumis sativus · Vegetables

Cucumber is a cool, crisp gourd that is more than 95 % water and is eaten raw with its skin. It provides small amounts of vitamin K and potassium and flavonols such as kaempferol and quercetin, plant compounds studied in laboratory research for their antioxidant activity. Slice it into salads, tzatziki and gazpacho, pickle it, or add it to cold soups and grain bowls at the very end so it stays crunchy.

Polyols

SorbitolNot a source

Source: Measured value (BLS 4.0)

What this means

This is cucumber's own sorbitol content, not a recipe amount. Sorbitol is a polyol — a type of sugar alcohol — calculated from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.20 g threshold (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sugars

Per 100 g

Total fructose0.9 g

Excess fructoseNot a source

Source: Measured value (BLS 4.0)

What this means

These are cucumber's own fructose figures, not a recipe amount. Total fructose is how much fructose the food contains. Excess fructose is fructose minus glucose, counted only when positive, since glucose helps the body absorb fructose — it is the figure behind the "Low fructose" filter and the recipe figures. When measured, both come from two official food-composition databases, Germany's Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS 4.0) and the French Ciqual table. Recipes are evaluated separately against a 0.40 g threshold of excess fructose (a per-serving cutoff from Varney et al. 2017, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, applied to one reference serving of the recipe) — an ingredient's own figure isn't directly comparable to that number, since a recipe combines several ingredients in different amounts. This describes the food, not a guarantee about how your body will respond to it.

Sources

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