Cucurbitacins, Bitterness, and Cucumber Safety

Table of Contents

1. What Cucurbitacins Are
2. Why Modern Cucumbers Are Not Bitter
3. When the Bitterness Comes Back
4. Toxic Squash Syndrome
5. The Hair Loss Cluster
6. The Rule: Taste, Then Discard
7. Cucurbitacins and Cancer Cells: In Vitro Only
8. Wax Coatings: What They Actually Are
9. Pesticide Residues and Washing
10. Should You Peel? A Fair Answer
11. When Cucumbers Really Were the Source
12. 2011: When Spanish Cucumbers Were Wrongly Blamed
13. Who Should Take Care
14. Key Research Papers
15. Connections
16. Featured Videos

What Cucurbitacins Are

Cucurbitacins are a family of oxygenated triterpene compounds produced by plants in the gourd family — cucumber, courgette and marrow, pumpkin and squash, melon, watermelon, bottle gourd, bitter melon and their wild relatives. Chen and colleagues catalogue the structural family and its reported biological activities; more than a dozen main types have been described, labelled with letters, of which cucurbitacins B, C, D and E are the ones that matter for food.

Their purpose in the plant is defence. They are intensely, memorably bitter — detectable by human taste at concentrations measured in parts per billion, which makes them among the most bitter substances known — and they deter most mammals and many insects from eating the fruit and leaves. In cucumber specifically the dominant form is cucurbitacin C, and it concentrates in the leaves, the stem, the root, the peel, and the stem end of the fruit. The pattern is what you would expect of a defence chemical: highest where the plant is most vulnerable and where a browsing animal would bite first.

They are also genuinely toxic in quantity. Cucurbitacins are cytotoxic — they disrupt the actin cytoskeleton of cells and interfere with cell signalling — and in the gut this produces vomiting, cramping, and profuse diarrhoea. The dose in an ordinary edible cucumber is trace, because breeders spent the twentieth century removing it. The dose in a wild gourd, an ornamental gourd or a badly out-of-line garden plant can be enough to make someone seriously unwell.

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Why Modern Cucumbers Are Not Bitter

The genetics of this were worked out in a piece of research that is genuinely elegant, and it explains both why your supermarket cucumber is mild and why a garden one occasionally is not.

Shang and colleagues, publishing in Science, mapped the biosynthesis and regulation of bitterness in cucumber. They identified the cluster of genes that make cucurbitacin C and, crucially, the two transcription factors that switch that pathway on in different tissues — one controlling production in the leaves, the other in the fruit. Domestication, they showed, acted on the fruit switch. Cultivated cucumbers carry variants that keep bitterness out of the fruit while leaving the leaf defence largely intact, which is exactly the compromise a farmer would want: an edible fruit on a plant that can still defend its foliage. Zhou and colleagues subsequently extended the work across the gourd family in Nature Plants, showing how the same bitterness pathway has been convergently and divergently regulated in cucumber, melon and watermelon.

Two practical consequences follow from that architecture.

First, the bitterness is not gone, it is switched off. The genes are still present in the plant. A cultivated cucumber is not a plant that lost the ability to make cucurbitacins; it is a plant that has been told not to make them in the fruit. Anything that disturbs that regulation can let some through.

Second, the trait can be reintroduced by ordinary crossing. If a bitter-fruited plant — a wild relative, an ornamental gourd, a volunteer seedling from a bin — pollinates a cultivated one, the seed from that fruit can carry the bitter genotype. That is the mechanism behind most serious poisonings, and it is why the risk is concentrated in home gardens rather than in commercial produce.

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When the Bitterness Comes Back

Several situations raise cucurbitacin levels in fruit that ought to be mild.

• Saved seed. This is the big one. Most modern cucumbers and squashes are F1 hybrids; seed saved from them does not breed true, and the next generation can express traits the parent suppressed. Worse, cucurbits cross-pollinate readily, so seed saved from a garden where ornamental gourds or wild relatives were growing can carry the bitter genotype outright. Seed from a supermarket squash carries the same uncertainty.
• Cross-pollination with ornamentals. Decorative gourds are bred for looks and are frequently bitter. Grown near edible cucurbits, they will exchange pollen. The fruit on the plant this year is unaffected — pollen changes the seed, not the flesh around it — but next year's plants grown from that seed are a genuine risk.
• Plant stress. Heat, drought, irregular watering, wide temperature swings, poor soil and root damage have all been associated with increased bitterness in cucumbers. The effect is generally modest — usually enough to make a cucumber unpleasant rather than dangerous — but stress and a marginal genotype together are a worse combination than either alone.
• The stem end and the peel. Even in a normal cucumber, cucurbitacins are highest here. If only the last inch tastes bitter, cutting it off and tasting again is reasonable. If the flesh is bitter, it is not.
• Older and heirloom varieties. Some traditional cultivars were never selected as hard for low bitterness as the modern commercial types.

Commercial cucumbers are, by contrast, grown from certified hybrid seed under contract, and a bitter line would be caught long before it reached a shop. This is one of the rare cases where industrial production is straightforwardly safer than the garden.

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Toxic Squash Syndrome

The illness caused by eating high-cucurbitacin cucurbits has a name — toxic squash syndrome — and it is documented in the poisoning literature rather than being folklore.

The largest published series comes from France. Le Roux and colleagues reviewed cases of poisoning by non-edible squash reported to French Poison Control Centres and described 353 patients. The typical presentation is rapid in onset — often within an hour of eating — and gastrointestinal: nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhoea, sometimes severe enough to cause dehydration. Most cases are self-limiting and resolve within a day or two, and treatment is supportive: fluids, and stopping the exposure. A minority are severe enough to need hospital care, and severe dehydration is the main danger, particularly in children and older adults.

The pattern of exposure in reported cases is consistent with the genetics above. Poisonings cluster around home-grown fruit, saved or gifted seed, and mistaken identity with ornamental gourds. Two earlier reports in the food-safety literature describe the same thing in North America: Kirschman and Suber documented food poisonings from cucurbitacin in traditionally bred squash, and Rymal and colleagues reported squash containing toxic cucurbitacin compounds occurring in California and Alabama. Neither is new, and neither is common — but both show that ordinary garden and even commercially grown cucurbits can occasionally carry enough of the compound to make people ill.

The critical point for a reader is the one that makes this preventable: the fruit tastes overwhelmingly bitter before it can hurt you. Cucurbitacins are detectable by taste far below the dose that causes symptoms. There is no such thing as a dangerously toxic cucumber that tastes normal. The warning system is built in; the only failure mode is ignoring it.

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The Hair Loss Cluster

The most striking single report in this literature is a short paper by Assouly in JAMA Dermatology, describing hair loss associated with cucurbit poisoning.

The report concerns individuals in France who ate bitter squash soup, developed the acute gastrointestinal illness described above, and then — some weeks later — experienced substantial hair loss. The delay is the clinically informative part. A severe systemic insult can push a large proportion of hair follicles out of their growth phase simultaneously, and the shed becomes visible only when those hairs are released weeks afterwards. That is the pattern of telogen effluvium, and it is a recognised sequel to acute illness, high fever, major surgery and severe physiological stress. It is usually reversible, with regrowth over the following months.

The report is small — a case report, not a series — and it should be read as such. Its value is in demonstrating that cucurbitacin poisoning can be systemic enough to produce a delayed effect on the hair cycle, which is a more serious event than the transient tummy upset the syndrome is often reduced to.

It also makes the practical rule land harder than any amount of general advice would. The bitter courgette that ruins a Sunday is one thing. The bitter courgette that costs you your hair for six months is a different kind of reason to spit it out.

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The Rule: Taste, Then Discard

The whole of the cucurbitacin problem reduces to a rule short enough to remember and pass on.

1. Taste a small piece of any cucumber, courgette, marrow, pumpkin or squash before cooking with it — particularly anything home-grown, gifted, grown from saved seed, or unusually shaped or coloured.
2. If it is unpleasantly bitter, spit it out. Do not swallow the mouthful to be polite. Rinse your mouth.
3. Throw the whole fruit away. Not just the bitter end. Cucurbitacin distribution within a fruit is uneven, and the absence of bitterness in one bite does not clear the rest.
4. Do not try to cook it out. Cucurbitacins are heat-stable. Boiling, roasting, frying and pickling do not destroy them; a bitter soup stays a toxic soup.
5. Do not mask it. Sugar, salt, cream and strong spices will hide the taste and leave the dose. This is how whole families are poisoned from one pot.
6. If several people ate it and are vomiting, keep them drinking. Dehydration is the danger, and a poison centre is the right call if symptoms are severe, if a child or an older person is affected, or if fluids cannot be kept down.
7. In the garden: buy fresh seed from a reputable supplier rather than saving it, and do not grow ornamental gourds beside edible cucurbits if you intend to save any seed at all.

An occasional mildly bitter supermarket cucumber — the sort where the stem end is sharp and the rest is fine — is not this. That is ordinary variation, and cutting off the end is a perfectly reasonable response. The rule is aimed at fruit that is unmistakably, aggressively bitter, the kind that makes you pull a face.

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Cucurbitacins and Cancer Cells: In Vitro Only

Search for cucurbitacins and you will find a large and growing body of cancer research, and it is worth being clear about what it does and does not mean for anyone eating a cucumber.

The literature is real. Garg, Kaul and Wadhwa review cucurbitacin B in cancer intervention, covering its chemistry, its biology and the mechanisms proposed for it; Chen and colleagues' structural review and Aeri, Kaushik and Mir's survey of cucurbitacins as medicinal leads cover similar ground. The reported activities are consistent across many papers: inhibition of the JAK/STAT3 signalling pathway, disruption of the actin cytoskeleton, cell-cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis in cancer cell lines, and reduced tumour growth in some rodent models.

Now the qualifications, all of which matter:

• It is cell-culture and animal work. There is no clinical trial evidence that cucurbitacins treat cancer in people, and the compounds have not completed the path from preclinical interest to approved therapy.
• The compounds studied are isolated and concentrated. Researchers use purified cucurbitacin B or E at defined concentrations, typically far above anything achievable from food.
• The mechanism that kills cancer cells is not selective. Cytoskeletal disruption and general cytotoxicity affect healthy cells too. That is precisely why cucurbitacins cause vomiting and diarrhoea — the same activity acting on the gut lining. Toxicity is the obstacle to developing them as drugs, not an incidental detail.
• Edible cucumbers contain trace amounts by design. Decades of breeding removed them. A cucumber is close to the worst possible dietary source of the compounds this research is about.
• Seeking out bitter cucurbits for their cucurbitacins is dangerous. This needs saying plainly, because the two halves of this article can otherwise be read as contradicting each other. The dose that causes toxic squash syndrome is far below anything with a plausible therapeutic effect. There is no version of "eat the bitter ones for the anticancer compounds" that is a good idea.

The honest summary is that cucurbitacins are a legitimate subject of pharmacological research and not a reason to eat or avoid any particular vegetable. Interesting molecules; no dietary claim.

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Wax Coatings: What They Actually Are

Many loose slicing cucumbers are sold with a shiny coating, and it worries people more than it should.

Cucumbers lose water very quickly through their skin — the same evaporation that keeps them cool in the field also shrivels them in a shop. A thin coating slows that loss, keeps the fruit firm and saleable for longer, and reduces waste. The coatings used on produce are food-grade materials: typically carnauba wax from palm leaves, shellac, or vegetable- and petroleum-derived waxes, all permitted as food additives and applied in very small quantities. They are edible, they are not absorbed, and there is no evidence of harm from eating them.

What is fair to say about them:

• They are not a way of hiding poor quality. Wax does not make an old cucumber look new; it slows the decline of a fresh one.
• They can trap surface residue. A coating applied over the skin means that anything already on the skin is now under a film, which is one reason washing matters and is more effective before the coating goes on than after.
• They wash off only partly. Scrubbing under running water removes much of a wax coating; it does not strip it entirely. If you dislike the idea, peel — accepting the loss of fibre and vitamin K — or buy the types that are not waxed.
• English and Persian cucumbers are usually not waxed. The long ones are shrink-wrapped in plastic film instead, which serves the same purpose. Persian and Lebanese types have thin skins and short supply chains and typically go without either.
• Organic produce may still be coated, using materials permitted under organic standards. "Organic" is not the same as "uncoated".

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Pesticide Residues and Washing

Cucumbers appear regularly on the campaigning lists of produce with detectable residues, so it is worth setting out what is actually known.

Detectable is not the same as harmful. Modern analytical chemistry can find residues at parts per billion, and national monitoring programmes in Europe and North America consistently report that the large majority of produce samples are within legal maximum residue limits, which are themselves set well below levels associated with harm. At the same time, "within limits" is a regulatory statement about single compounds, and the long-term effect of low-level mixtures is a genuinely open research question rather than a settled one. Both of those things are true, and a page that reports only one of them is not being straight with you.

What reduces residues, per Kaushik, Satya and Naik's review of food processing as a tool for pesticide residue dissipation:

• Washing helps, and simple washing helps most of what can be helped. Running water with mechanical rubbing removes a meaningful fraction of surface residues. Soaking is generally less effective than running water plus friction.
• Elaborate washes add little. Vinegar solutions, baking soda solutions and commercial produce washes have been tested and give modest or inconsistent additional benefit over plain running water and a scrub. Commercial washes are not needed, and soap and detergent are explicitly not recommended for produce — they are not made to be eaten and can leave their own residue.
• Peeling removes the most. Residues concentrate in and on the skin, so peeling is the most effective single step — at the cost of the fibre, vitamin K and carotenoids that are also concentrated there.
• Systemic pesticides are not on the surface. Some compounds are taken up into the plant, and no washing or peeling removes those. This is a real limit on what surface treatment can achieve.
• Buying organic changes which compounds are used, not whether any are. Organic production permits its own approved pesticides.

A proportionate conclusion: wash and scrub cucumbers under running water, which is what food-safety agencies recommend and is sufficient for most purposes. If residues genuinely worry you, peel or buy organic. What is not proportionate is eating fewer vegetables over it — the evidence that vegetable intake benefits health is vastly stronger than the evidence that residues at monitored levels harm it.

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Should You Peel? A Fair Answer

Putting the two halves together, because they pull in opposite directions and most advice gives only one side.

Reasons to keep the peel: it holds roughly half the cucumber's vitamin K — peeling roughly halves the total — along with most of the fibre and the carotenoids that colour it, and the crunch that makes the vegetable worth eating.

Reasons to peel: it removes most of any surface residue and any wax; it removes the tissue where cucurbitacins concentrate, which matters if the skin tastes bitter; and some people simply find the skin tough or hard to digest.

The resolution is that for ordinary washed supermarket cucumbers, keeping the peel is the better default, and the vitamin K argument is the strongest single reason. Do not peel reflexively. Peel when there is a reason: a thick-skinned field cucumber, a heavily waxed one you would rather not eat, a bitter skin, a digestive issue, or a dish that needs the texture.

The middle option is worth knowing: peel in stripes, running a peeler down the length and leaving alternating bands of skin. You keep roughly half the peel's contribution and change the texture completely. Choosing thin-skinned varieties — Persian, Lebanese, English — solves the problem before it starts.

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When Cucumbers Really Were the Source

Fresh produce eaten raw carries an inherent microbiological risk, because there is no cooking step to kill anything present. Cucumbers have been implicated in real outbreaks, and the best-documented recent one is worth describing because it shows how the risk actually arises.

Laughlin and colleagues reported a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Poona infections in the United States associated with imported cucumbers across 2015 and 2016. It was a large outbreak spanning many states, with hospitalisations and deaths, and it disproportionately affected children. The investigation traced it to cucumbers from a single importer.

The mechanism of contamination in produce outbreaks is nearly always upstream of the consumer, in the growing and packing environment: contaminated irrigation water, animal intrusion in the field, contaminated wash water in the packing house, or infected workers without adequate facilities. Cucumbers are particularly exposed because they grow at or near ground level, are eaten raw, are commonly washed in shared water baths after harvest, and have a slightly textured skin that gives bacteria somewhere to hold on. Once bacteria are internalised through the skin or lodged in surface irregularities, domestic washing cannot reliably remove them.

What a consumer can usefully do is therefore limited but not nothing: buy from sources with functioning traceability, refrigerate promptly and keep cut cucumber cold, wash and scrub before cutting so that a knife does not carry surface bacteria into the flesh, use separate boards from raw meat, and pay attention to recall notices. People who are pregnant, immunocompromised, very young or elderly carry a higher risk from any raw produce, and that is a reason for care in sourcing and handling rather than for avoidance.

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2011: When Spanish Cucumbers Were Wrongly Blamed

The other outbreak worth knowing is one in which cucumbers were the accused rather than the cause, and it is one of the most instructive episodes in modern food-safety reporting.

In May 2011 northern Germany saw an explosive epidemic of bloody diarrhoea and haemolytic-uraemic syndrome — a severe complication in which red blood cells are destroyed and the kidneys fail. Frank and colleagues described the epidemic profile in the New England Journal of Medicine: the organism was Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4, thousands were infected, and the outbreak was remarkable in two ways. Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome usually strikes young children; this one predominantly affected adults, and women in particular. And the case numbers rose faster than almost any comparable outbreak on record.

Early in the investigation, German authorities publicly identified cucumbers imported from Spain as the likely source, after the organism appeared to be detected on cucumbers from a Spanish supplier. The announcement was made while the epidemic was still growing and the pressure to say something was enormous.

It was wrong. Further testing showed the organism on those cucumbers was not the outbreak strain. Buchholz and colleagues, reporting the epidemiological investigation, identified the actual vehicle: sprouts, traced to fenugreek seed from a single lot. Rasko and colleagues sequenced the organism and described its origins, showing it to be an unusual hybrid strain combining the Shiga-toxin gene of an enterohaemorrhagic E. coli with the adherence machinery of an enteroaggregative one — which helps explain both its virulence and its unusual clinical pattern.

The cost of the false accusation was substantial. Spanish cucumber exports collapsed, European markets for salad vegetables shut down almost overnight, growers across southern Spain suffered severe losses, and the European Union subsequently paid compensation to affected producers. Meanwhile the retraction reached far fewer people than the original announcement had.

Several honest lessons come out of this, and they generalise well beyond cucumbers:

• Finding an organism on a food is not the same as finding the outbreak strain. Confirmation requires matching the isolate to the strain making people ill, and in 2011 the initial detection did not match.
• Naming a food publicly is an irreversible act. Once a product is named, the market damage is done and does not reverse when the correction arrives.
• Sprouts are a recurring high-risk food, and cucumbers are not. Seed sprouting incubates any contamination present on the seed at ideal temperature and humidity. Sprouts have caused numerous outbreaks internationally; that is why food-safety agencies single them out for vulnerable groups.
• Speed and accuracy genuinely conflict in an outbreak. Public-health authorities were under real pressure to warn people while the epidemic was still climbing, and waiting also has a cost. This was a hard call badly made, not a stupid one.
• Read the retraction, not just the headline. Anyone who stopped eating cucumbers in 2011 and never heard the correction avoided a food that had nothing to do with it.

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Who Should Take Care

For nearly everyone, cucumber needs no special handling beyond washing it. A few groups have something specific to consider.

• People with pollen-food allergy syndrome. Individuals sensitised to ragweed pollen frequently react to the gourd family, including cucumber and melon, with itching or tingling of the mouth and lips and sometimes local swelling. The proteins involved are usually heat-labile, so cooked or pickled cucumber is often tolerated when raw is not. Reactions are typically mild and local, but anyone who has had throat tightness or a systemic reaction needs proper allergy assessment rather than trial and error.
• People taking warfarin. Cucumber's vitamin K is modest but real. The guidance is consistency rather than avoidance, and it is set out in Vitamin K and Bone Health.
• People with advanced kidney disease or on potassium-raising medication. Cucumber is a potassium food. It is a mild one, but if you have been told to manage potassium intake it counts.
• People who get reflux or bloating from cucumber. A real and common complaint, usually from the seeds and skin. Seedless or "burpless" types, deseeding, or peeling generally solve it, and it is worth trying those before concluding cucumber does not agree with you.
• Pregnant, immunocompromised, very young and elderly people. Higher risk from any raw produce. Wash thoroughly, keep cut cucumber refrigerated, and follow recall notices. The advice is careful handling, not exclusion — vegetables remain important.
• Anyone eating pickles regularly. The sodium load of brined cucumber is a different question entirely from the safety of the fresh fruit, and it is covered on the main cucumber page.
• Gardeners. The group most exposed to the cucurbitacin risk, and the one that most needs the taste-and-discard rule. Buy fresh seed; do not save it from hybrids or from a plot with ornamental gourds in it.

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Key Research Papers

1. Shang Y, Ma Y, Zhou Y, et al. Biosynthesis, regulation, and domestication of bitterness in cucumber. Science. 2014;346(6213):1084–1088. — doi:10.1126/science.1259215
2. Zhou Y, Ma Y, Zeng J, et al. Convergence and divergence of bitterness biosynthesis and regulation in Cucurbitaceae. Nature Plants. 2016;2:16183. — doi:10.1038/nplants.2016.183
3. Chen JC, Chiu MH, Nie RL, Cordell GA, Qiu SX. Cucurbitacins and cucurbitane glycosides: structures and biological activities. Natural Product Reports. 2005;22(3):386. — doi:10.1039/b418841c
4. Aeri V, Kaushik U, Mir SR. Cucurbitacins — an insight into medicinal leads from nature. Pharmacognosy Reviews. 2015;9(17):12. — doi:10.4103/0973-7847.156314
5. Le Roux G, Leborgne I, Labadie M, et al. Poisoning by non-edible squash: retrospective series of 353 patients from French Poison Control Centers. Clinical Toxicology. 2018;56(8):790–794. — doi:10.1080/15563650.2018.1424891
6. Assouly P. Hair loss associated with cucurbit poisoning. JAMA Dermatology. 2018;154(5):617. — doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2017.6128
7. Kirschman JC, Suber RL. Recent food poisonings from cucurbitacin in traditionally bred squash. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 1989;27(8):555–556. — doi:10.1016/0278-6915(89)90058-6
8. Rymal KS, Chambliss OL, Bond MD, Smith DA. Squash containing toxic cucurbitacin compounds occurring in California and Alabama. Journal of Food Protection. 1984;47(4):270–271. — doi:10.4315/0362-028X-47.4.270
9. Garg S, Kaul SC, Wadhwa R. Cucurbitacin B and cancer intervention: chemistry, biology and mechanisms (review). International Journal of Oncology. 2017. — doi:10.3892/ijo.2017.4203
10. Frank C, Werber D, Cramer JP, et al. Epidemic profile of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany. New England Journal of Medicine. 2011;365(19):1771–1780. — doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1106483
11. Buchholz U, Bernard H, Werber D, et al. German outbreak of Escherichia coli O104:H4 associated with sprouts. New England Journal of Medicine. 2011;365(19):1763–1770. — doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1106482
12. Rasko DA, Webster DR, Sahl JW, et al. Origins of the E. coli strain causing an outbreak of hemolytic-uremic syndrome in Germany. New England Journal of Medicine. 2011;365(8):709–717. — doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1106920
13. Laughlin M, Bottichio L, Weiss J, et al. Multistate outbreak of Salmonella Poona infections associated with imported cucumbers, 2015–2016. Epidemiology and Infection. 2019;147. — doi:10.1017/S0950268819001596
14. Kaushik G, Satya S, Naik SN. Food processing a tool to pesticide residue dissipation — a review. Food Research International. 2009;42(1):26–40. — doi:10.1016/j.foodres.2008.09.009
15. Mukherjee PK, Nema NK, Maity N, Sarkar BK. Phytochemical and therapeutic potential of cucumber. Fitoterapia. 2013;84:227–236. — doi:10.1016/j.fitote.2012.10.003

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