I must admit, even I don't pass by them in the grocery store and say, "Wow, let's get one of those amazing cucumbers!"

After learning a few things about cucumbers that I didn't already know, I now feel guilty about brushing them off. Cucumber is actually an amazing vegetable with an impressive nutritional profile. In fact, it can even be eaten in place of your daily multivitamin. 

A little about this humble veggie

Cucumber, or Cucumis sativus, is in the same family as melon and squash. Commercially, cucumbers are divided into two groups, slicing and pickling. Slicing cucumbers generally have thick skin and are larger than the thin-skinned pickling cucumbers.