Is it harmful to eat cucumbers with flowers?

Cucumber is a common vegetable in life. People who are losing weight must know that eating cucumbers can help lose weight. Cucumbers have many uses. Putting cucumber slices on your face can beautify and nourish your skin. Cucumber has a fresh and fragrant taste and tastes particularly good. Whether it is for home-cooked cold dishes or stir-fried dishes, it is the best choice. Fresh cucumbers have thorns on the top or flowers on them. Is it harmful to eat cucumbers with flowers?

"Cucumber with flowers" uses hormones

As for the situation where cucumbers have bright little flowers when they are sold, these fruits actually have the same growth process as cucumbers, they must bloom before bearing fruit. Therefore, when the cucumbers grow into commercial melons, the flowers will definitely wither.

These cucumbers with flowers are abnormal, but it is also certain that they are not caused by birth control pills.

Blooming and bearing fruit, and ripening melons falling off the vine, this is the ecological law of nature. Normally, it takes more than a week for cucumbers to be harvested from flowering. Normally, it takes 3-4 days for normally grown cucumbers to bear fruit. The flowers will automatically fall off on the 4th day after blooming. Although some cucumbers still have flowers after they mature, they have all withered. Therefore, if you see bright yellow flowers still on the cucumbers, it is definitely the result of human intervention.

Experts pointed out that the fresh cucumbers with flowers and thorns on top were indeed tampered with, but they did not agree that they were "contraceptives." Because for plants, what can produce effects on them should be plant hormones, while contraceptives are animal hormones. There are fundamental structural differences between the two, and they are two "completely unrelated" fields.

It is understood that this medicine, which can make cucumbers still have flowers after they grow, is a growth regulator, that is, a plant hormone. Soaking the flower buds of cucumbers with it before they bloom can affect normal flowering and achieve the effect of still having flowers after bearing fruit. Through the treatment of plant hormones, the fruit-bearing rate will also be improved, thereby increasing the yield, so this method is very popular in major vegetable producing areas such as Shandong.

Is it harmful to use plant hormones?

The plant hormone applied to cucumbers is actually a growth hormone. There are many different hormones used for cucumbers, and there is no unified formal name. The more common ones are mainly two categories: auxins and anthocyanins. Vegetable farmers generally use hormones for the purpose of keeping cucumbers fresh, which can also accelerate the growth of cucumbers and lengthen the melon body to a certain extent.

According to relevant national regulations, plant growth regulators are allowed to be used in agricultural production. At present, the agricultural department only tests the pesticide residues when sampling the quality of agricultural products. As for the sampling of plant growth hormones, the current technology is not yet capable of doing so, so this indicator is not included in the testing range.