The cucumber is quite popular vegetable not only in our country, but also in many others. It is used in a fresh, salty and marinated look and also used as the bleaching and moisturizing cosmetic. Thanks to the high content of useful substances and its low caloric content it is possible and it is useful to use at fight against excess weight.
Caloric content and advantage of fresh cucumbers
Energy value of a fresh cucumber is extremely small – only 15 kcal on 100 g. Not surprisingly, it for 99% consists of water, and for the one and only percent – of fibers. That is why this vegetable often is present at the menu of those who seek to keep symmetry the figures. In day it is possible to eat quietly even kilogram of cucumbers – it won't be reflected in a figure in any way, such quantity will contain only 150 calories. Rare products can brag of such low caloric content.
Thanks to a large amount of water the fresh cucumbers promote removal from an organism of toxins and slags.
At the same time it contains a lot of useful a microcell, for example, zinc, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, calcium and potassium. And still the cucumber is vitamin-rich groups B, a primary vitamin And, ascorbic acid and RR vitamin. Thanks to such structure this product is considered effective diuretic and bile-expelling remedy, strengthens vessels and improves work of a thyroid gland. And availability of cellulose does a cucumber very useful to digestion.
Caloric content and useful properties of pickled cucumbers
Pickled cucumbers even less kaloriyna, than fresh. In 100 g of a product only 13 kilocalories contain. And though such product isn't too preferable to weight loss as it increases appetite and contains a lot of salt, it is useful to health. Pickled cucumbers contain lactics which destroy microbes in intestines and normalize microflora there. And lactic acid finds blood circulation in an organism. Such product is also rich with cellulose, well usvaivy compounds of iodine and many mineral substances, including iron. Also all vitamins remain in pickled cucumbers. And still they contain the tartonovy acid improving exchange processes.
It is necessary to refuse pickled cucumbers that who suffers from inflammatory processes in a GIT, a renal failure and cardiovascular diseases.
How many calories in a cucumber pickles
And how many calories cucumbers in a marinated look possess? In such product of calories contains a little more, than in fresh and pickled cucumbers. Their energy value – 16 kcal on 100 g. At the same time on the structure, useful properties and contraindications to the use the cucumber pickles practically coincides with salty. It is especially good to use them as snack, they are capable to neutralize harmful action of a number of alcohol.