Contains Antioxidants
Cucumbers contain numerous antioxidant including beta-carotene, vitamin C, lignans, triterpene, and flavonoids that induce anti-inflammatory properties in the body. Beta-carotene is significant for vision while vitamin C is very famous for its benefits to the immune system. Free radicals are produced as a result of normal metabolic system cause a number of diseases like cancer, but the consumption of fresh extracts from cucumber increase the scavenging of free radicals. The triterpene content in cucumber reduce inflammation significantly.