The Truth About the Cucumber

Cucumber has a very neutral flavour (neither very sweet or very savoury) and, as it's a close relative of the melons, it can be used in fruit salads or smoothies, for example, to give a 'melon' type flavour when used with other fruits, especially ones fairly low in acid, like strawberries. I have sometimes used a little chopped cucumber in a bowl of strawberries and I have also had a delicious fruit cup made of tea and cider garnished with chopped strawberries and cucumber and a sprig of mint.

We've always treated cucumbers like a vegetable, so even though science may say it's a fruit, I can only think of it as a vegetable. I have an Iranian friend who puts cucumbers in her fruit salad . . . it seemed weird at first, but actually it does balance out the sweetness of the other fruits. I expect it with her fruit salads now, but otherwise it would still seem odd to me.

I will always consider it a vegetable, no matter what science wants to call it.

I always thought of it as a veggie too!! I have had many a sandwich filled with them over the years!! I guess I was eating a fruit sandwich and didn't know it ! ;)

As the definition of "vegetables" is a plant or part of a plant, all fruits are also vegetables. Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from a flowering plant. Vegetables are all other plant parts (roots, leaves and stem) If you want to be more confused bananas are berries.

I like to just munch cucumber as alternative snack food during mid mornings.

It makes it hard to check off our so many servings of fruit, so many of veggies, when cucumbers and tomatoes are really fruits.

I don't know. Here we tend to think that cucumber is a kind of vegetable We hardly to eat it raw actually. I think the same argument is also available for tomatos. Some say they are fruits but some think they are vegetables.

I made cucumber juice before. Just juiced them up, add some sugar and ice, and you get a refreshing treats. Anyway everyone know that cucumber is categorized as fruit vegetable, similar to tomato, eggplant, ect. So I was wondering what is the point of this discussion.

always took them for vegetables myself - how wrong could I be

I love them on bread and butter.

I love cucumbers and either way it will be a favorite with me. lol

I will still treat it as a veggie. But I had wondered about that as tomatoes are also considered a fruit.

It is ok for me, I like it no matter what it is

I love cucumbers. I often peel one and eat it whole.

I didn't know it was a fruit. Good to know.