cucumber
cucumber, ์ค์ด
Cucumber is a fresh and healthy vegetable enjoyed as an ingredient worldwide. It can be eaten raw or made into pickles for various uses.
In Korea, fresh cucumbers are eaten as wraps or in salads, and cucumber kimchi varieties like oi-sobagi and oi-kimchi are very popular. In summer, people also enjoy cold cucumber soup.
์ค์ด๋ ์ ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ฑ์๋ก ์ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ ์์ฌ๋ฃ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ๋จน๊ฑฐ๋ ํผํด๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ค์ํ๊ฒ ํ์ฉ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
ํ๊ตญ์์๋ ์์ค์ด๋ฅผ ์์ด๋ ์๋ฌ๋๋ก ๋จน๊ณ , ์ค์ด์๋ฐ์ด์ ์ค์ด๊น์น๋ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฆ์ฒ ์๋ ์์ํ ์ค์ด๋๊ตญ์ ์ฆ๊ฒจ ๋จน๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค.
Cucumber consists of 95% water and is low in calories, making it popular as a diet food. It's also good for skin care, being used as a key ingredient in facial masks and skincare products.
In ancient Egypt, cucumbers were considered sacred plants, and it's said that Cleopatra used them regularly for beauty care. In modern times, cucumber extract has become a prominent ingredient in K-beauty products.