It is a healthy drink Claire Williamson of the British Nutrition Foundation Dr Ruxton's team found average tea consumption was just under three cups per day. She said the increasing popularity of soft drinks meant many people were not drinking as much tea as before.
What Makes a Cucumber Bitter? Most cucumber plants contain compounds known as cucurbitacins (âkyew-ker-BIT-a-sinsâ) that cause fruit to taste bitter. At low levels, you arenât likely to detect them. But high levels of cucurbitacins produce extremely bitter fruit. Some cucumber varieties possess a gene that inhibits their formation.
Actually you need to cut one specific end -- the darker green side. The other one, even of cut, would have no liquid paste secretion on rubbing and would not reduce the bitterness. We grow cucumbers in my native village and when we pluck one to eat and have no knife to cut the bitter side, we start eating from the other side.