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No veg, little fiber, high in refined carbs. Kinda shit, imo. Goddamn, eat a piece of whole fruit instead of processed shit that’s basically just sugar.
I see a pickle
Cucumber’s a fruit lol
Vegatable is a culinary term, not a scientific term. All vegetables that we human eat that are not leafy greens or tubers are in fact fruits, scientifically speaking. Cucumbers are a fruit, until you bring them into the kitchen, at which point the vegatable-fruit superposition collapses and it becomes a vegatable, full stop.
But it doesn't belong, if it's going in the tum tum, gotta be yum yum.
Pickle not a veg?
You’ve taken nearly all the nutritional value out of the cucumber. It’s basically just a bit of fiber now.
Incorrect, they are a good source of vitamins A and K
Fiber is good for you.
Lacto-fermenting the veg and drinking the brine improves nutritional value (so they say)
Except that it destroys much of the already small vitamin content of cucumbers.
To the contrary, lacto fermentation increases concentration of vitamins in food:
"Fermentation is indeed a process which allows an increase of content of some vitamins in food. For instance, over the last decades microbial fermentation has been increasingly investigated as a valuable alternative for natural folate (vitamin B9) production, and as a sustainable technology based on renewable resources [25]."
"diverse functional food components in the developed fermented cucumbers, such as active peptides, free amino acids, organic acids, oligosaccharides, exopolysaccharides, and vitamins may increase, but detrimental microbes, oxidants, and hypersensitivities may decrease and eliminate using innovative fermentation processing technologies (Liu, Wang, & Deng, 2023)."
Basically the lactobacilus and other beneficial bacteria eat primarily the carbohydrates, they don't consume vitamins
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6567126/
But it creates probiotic environment in which beneficial bacteria thrive that will boost the absorbtion of the nutrients from other stuff you consume