Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...

Cucumbers are made up of about 96% water and contain beneficial nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, and fiber. Eating them unpeeled maximizes their nutritional value. Cucumbers may help ...

What does it mean to be alive? A new study on an astonishing sea creature suggests the answer may be more complicated than it seems. Some amputated fragments of Psolus fabricii — a type of sea ...

Cucumbers are more hydrating than zucchinis with 96% water content. Zucchinis have more vitamins and minerals than cucumbers. Zucchinis are more versatile for cooking as they can be grilled, sautéd, ...

We wouldn't call it the best if we didn't mean it. We have made a lot of cucumber salads in our Test Kitchen, so when we tasked the recipe developers to make our best cucumber salad, we knew the work ...

If you’re scanning the produce aisles at the grocery store, it can be difficult to recognize a zucchini vs. cucumber from a few steps away. Frankly, it can still be difficult to tell these two oblong, ...

Three summers ago, Kiel University biomechanist Stainslav Gorb, returned to Germany after a vacation in Turkey with a present for Ph.D. student Helen Gorges. "He came back and was like, 'Helen, I ...