Hi, everyone! There were a couple questions about cucumber nutrition. There's a bit of potassium and vitamin C, some soluble fiber and phytonutrients. But cucumbers are really a great source of hydration!
Hi Nicole, I'm a Chinese boy working holiday in Australia, undertaking farm jobs on various farms most of the time. I'm now working on an avocado and blueberry farm. Born into a farming place in central China and working on the farm, I know most of the knowledges about farming, plants and insects. But still I find it really relaxing to watch your episodes. I'm doing jobs like the workers in the fields in your videos, but when you walking, running, smiling and picking, it feels like you're working with me. Thanks for the great videos.
@@kirkjohnson9353 Lol, it's quite amazing that you know some Chinese, but there are so many different words in Chinese when using Pingying system is written Ji, and chicken is only one of them. The corresponding Ji for my name is written 骥，literally means a prominent horse, but metaphors an outstanding person. Chinese like to name after horse, other examples like 骐Qi, 麟Lin,ect
@StellaR By keeping the wages down, you make it so that only desperate people want the shitty low paying job. So yeah "Stealing jobs" but more like servitude.
Alpha Jalloh Alpha Jalloh Maybe if these companies would provide those employees with better working conditions and fair wages, or an actual hourly wage we would see more Americans working in jobs like this. Americans are unappreciative but they are also ignorant especially leftists when it comes to immigration. Illegal migrants devalue what ever jobs they take. In the 1950s working as a butcher used to be a very good job. Now it’s not. Landscapers used to charge all jobs fairly. Now all the illegal migrants severely under charge their jobs and property owners only care about the lowest price rather than quality of work or years experience. That’s the issue with minimum wage. Too many illegal migrants came and took all the minimum wage jobs, the job devalues because of the excess supply and not enough demand lowers the wages. Too many minimum wage job seekers, not enough demand for job positions. Imagine there is a shortage of janitors. There isn’t enough applicants to take the janitor jobs. What employers would do then is make the job more attractive. Employers would increase the wage and provide benefits so someone could do the job. That’s how they job market goes. Less illegal migrants taking jobs, more benefits and increase wages for those job positions to a degree. So yes illegals are taking jobs. Illegals are making those jobs unattractive and worthless. I am saying this as someone who lives with and know lots of illegal migrants. I myself am a landscaper. I have a license in CA I also have degrees and certificates in agriculture, horticulture, landscape design, and business. It’s very difficult to compete with the mow and blow guy charging $10-$30 bucks for monthly service. Landscaping prices are all severely low. I am only in business because I adopted both quality of work and mow and blow strategies. I took a best of both worlds approach and that’s what keeps me in business. But I know other landscapers that only want to do quality work but are out of business because the can’t compete with the low prices. That is why we need strong immigration control. To control the inflow of unskilled workers so that the supply of unskilled workers meets the demand and wages can catch up.
@@biggus6633 It could of been worded differently, but that person got the point across. Yes there is North America and Latin America, but it is all America.This division is indeed due to Europeans coming to colonize America. Latin America is Latin America because those countries speak Romance languages and those languages are spoken because of the European countries that colonized and brought their language. All Americans are descendants of indigenous people native of this land (North and South).
If you want to pay them more, why don't you buy a farm, grow cucumbers and hire all these illegals and pay them $50 dollars an hour. Hell, why don't you pay them $100 an hour, it's your farm, you can pay them whatever you want. For anyone who love to virtue-signal, as if you're such a good kind person, why don't you walk your talk and do something about it. Take action, instead of just empty talk. Full of complaints. Are you just a virtue signaler? I think you are.
@@terriesmith8219 it's a fact that they get paid by the bucket which is why i said "no wonder they're running so fast" lmaaooooo i didn't say anything about giving them higher wages you brought that on yourself
I love you guys! This show highlights such important lessons such as the hard work of these farmers and the price disparity of ugly and pretty fruits and veggies. Keep up the good work!
Awesome video as usual Nicole. Back in India (southern India) my grand parents used to say "we should always cut the ends first, if not it makes the entire cucumber bitter", i don't think they knew about the bitter chemicals were concentrated in those ends, but many time we didn't listen to their advice we ended up spitting out a bitter cucumber !! 😓
I’m still in uni and it’s not easy balancing how much you make with how much you have to pay right now but when I finally finish and work full time. I will be back to donate as a show of gratitude for all the wonderful content you have uploaded. Thank you for the videos and thank you for the patience 🙂❤️
I wondered where you'd gotten to. The level of enthusiasm, and the expression of pure joy you have when you're making these films really captures your passion for this subject. It makes a simple video about cucumbers quite riveting to watch.
All my friends think I'm a botanist, little do they know all the information come from your amazing informative videos! Thank you for spreading knowledge! 😊
Just started getting ready for putting plants in the ground next week so I’m watching various stuff for no reason. I love gardening and growing your own foods 👍
Awesome episode as always! My family in Germany grow cucumbers in their garden and quite often make cucumber salad, without any type of lettuce. The dressing or sauce is homemade and tastes like a family trade secret but maybe more common there than I think. I am growing some cucumbers in my garden here in the US and this episode has opened up my eyes on some key facts. Thank you as always for your channel's high quality content and positive production. Keep up the good work and keep growing!
It was great to meet you and your son today at CHMS, what a lovely little guy he is! Thanks for letting me show him the playground. Your RUclips is awesome and something that could be a really great fit with our school. Hopefully, you and Amanda can connect this summer. Sandy Cattafesta
No"hum-drum Cucumbers in my salad we love em. They add the moisture to any salad. Thanks Nicole again for your teaching. Such a teacher you are" Lady of You Tube"
@TrueFoodTV ...Thank you very much, on understanding & knowledge on Nutrients. Some people on Gardens or Grocers.. Some has cancer & some Medical Bad things. I have several on my life on from me & millions peoples on help on "Nutrition on Help" on, cancer, kidneys, liver and etc. Mostly, not all wrong, from Health and has alcohol, narcotics & some worse. I have on my "Kidneys" on bad & my Doctor, don't on eat Potassium... I have a friend that his Doctor has LOW Potassium.. I have on our Gardens (Grandpa} 1 more Acre on farms stuffs. Now I, am not these on Cooperative Foods.. Like on 'Lettuce' on is on there water on "feces" (poopoo).. vegetalfruits on BIG Groceries. They have NOTHING on there papers, stickies or we don't KNOW!?!?? Thank you True Food!!
I only recently found this channel. Nicole and her husband bring such joy, such "young adult" energy, fun and a PBS like education vibe that I really enjoy a lot better than PBS or similar. I am going to join their channel and support this couple who I think are doing an outstanding job doing what they seem to love and educating us on all things food. Is it possible to have an Alton Brown and/ or Lan Lam on a cooking science episode too? These two food enthusiasts bring such an awesome science vibe to cooking and foods in general. Edit: Ms Jolly, your "dad hats" are out of stock and you need a say heather gray or similar make male t shirt with "True Food tv" on it.
I'll think of all the hard workers harvesting and processing cucumbers every time I eat one now-- and I eat some just about every day. Thanks to all of the guys out there running with their buckets.
She is striking! I grow my own organic food however, my first reason for subscribing to the channel was because of her!😶 She's cuuuute!😍 Second reason is for the knowledge!🤔😊
This video reminds me of my childhood time when I lived in my grandparent place. Some farmers plant cucumber and I used to play around the trees. Very nice video thank you so much I got a lot of new information. One of them, I just realised that most of the farm workers in USA are from Latin America, I guess they are from Mexico, aren't they?
Planting my cucumbers Monday. First day of my vacation. All for pickles. You should’ve stopped by and got a jar when you were in Georgia. Fantastic video again! #truefood
Just signed up as a member. I wish I'd seen this possibility earlier. I would hate to make you big-hearted, but you're my favourite channel on RUclips. I'm so happy to be a member of your community.
Hi This video is awesome I really love it. Actually I am Agronomist from Baghdad and grow many crops a round the country. One of this crops is cucumber. I like the the type of plantation in this video. Good luck and I can't wait to see your next video.
Thank you!🥒Love it! my 6yo & I have been eating Cucumbers...it's hot here! I thought they were fruit! 💚 I can understand the practicality of packing and shipping straight cucumbers, curved ones will take up more space...
This video is really awesome and I was so amazed hearing the size of this farm, it blew my mind. Whao whao am just so amazed with this farm done manually. Kudos to you guys
It’s fascinating how different this is to how English, Seedless cucumbers are grown! 90% of the cucumbers I’ve eaten have been the seedless sort but it wasn’t until I came to university that I discovered how they’re grown to be seedless. Unlike the slicing cucumbers, these cucumbers are grown to actively avoid pollination. Because cucumbers are dioecious, only female plants are grown to maturity and if a Male is grown by mistake; it can make all of the cucumbers surrounding it turn bitter as the bitter compounds only form when the plant is pollenated. After the plant waits long enough for pollination and doesn’t get it, it produces the fruits from the female flower with unfertilised ‘seeds’ which are very small and insignificant. I personally prefer English cucumbers to slicing ones but I didn’t know how different the two were until I watched this video; having only been taught about English ones.
Well done, Thomas! I had a few lines about this in the original script, but because we didn't get to film a greenhouse growing seedless, I felt it was too boring to get into without seeing it. But I did NOT know that bitterness is a result of pollination! I can't believe I didn't come across that in my research. Fascinating! Thank you.
TRUE FOOD TV Well it’s the case unless my university professor was lying to me 😂. I wonder if it’s the same for courgettes and marrows; or even gourds and other savoury Cucurbits 🤷🏼♂️
Mochigome 5521 Mostly older asians appreciate the taste of bitter melon. My parents like it too. I like stir frying it with meat, tomatoes, garlic, onions, ginger and maybe an egg if there is any left:)
Hi, everyone! There were a couple questions about cucumber nutrition. There's a bit of potassium and vitamin C, some soluble fiber and phytonutrients. But cucumbers are really a great source of hydration!
In my place cucumber's skin a bit brighter not deep green like those
can you make a how do beans grow, tysm
@@richard1145 any particular kind of bean? And just to make sure: you saw our chickpea episode, yes?
I've farmed cucumbers before! :) got the seeds from Cornell grew them at UF.
@@TrueFoodTV Black turtle bean
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hi Nicole, I'm a Chinese boy working holiday in Australia, undertaking farm jobs on various farms most of the time. I'm now working on an avocado and blueberry farm. Born into a farming place in central China and working on the farm, I know most of the knowledges about farming, plants and insects. But still I find it really relaxing to watch your episodes. I'm doing jobs like the workers in the fields in your videos, but when you walking, running, smiling and picking, it feels like you're working with me. Thanks for the great videos.
Feedback like this makes my heart sing! Thank you!!
Ji Zhang May the good Lord bless you.
Such a gracious comment. Why is your name "Chicken"?
@@kirkjohnson9353 Lol, it's quite amazing that you know some Chinese, but there are so many different words in Chinese when using Pingying system is written Ji, and chicken is only one of them. The corresponding Ji for my name is written 骥，literally means a prominent horse, but metaphors an outstanding person. Chinese like to name after horse, other examples like 骐Qi, 麟Lin,ect
@@billnoller4345 Thanks Bill for your wish, likewise
I see so many Latinos! America don't appreciate their hard work and say someone is stealing their job. We need to appreciate them more 😊
Amen!
@StellaR By keeping the wages down, you make it so that only desperate people want the shitty low paying job. So yeah "Stealing jobs" but more like servitude.
ibesweetp2
Latino as in a person (specifically a man) from LATIN America, dumbass. Latina is a woman from Latin America.
Alpha Jalloh
Alpha Jalloh
Maybe if these companies would provide those employees with better working conditions and fair wages, or an actual hourly wage we would see more Americans working in jobs like this. Americans are unappreciative but they are also ignorant especially leftists when it comes to immigration. Illegal migrants devalue what ever jobs they take. In the 1950s working as a butcher used to be a very good job. Now it’s not. Landscapers used to charge all jobs fairly. Now all the illegal migrants severely under charge their jobs and property owners only care about the lowest price rather than quality of work or years experience. That’s the issue with minimum wage. Too many illegal migrants came and took all the minimum wage jobs, the job devalues because of the excess supply and not enough demand lowers the wages. Too many minimum wage job seekers, not enough demand for job positions. Imagine there is a shortage of janitors. There isn’t enough applicants to take the janitor jobs. What employers would do then is make the job more attractive. Employers would increase the wage and provide benefits so someone could do the job. That’s how they job market goes. Less illegal migrants taking jobs, more benefits and increase wages for those job positions to a degree. So yes illegals are taking jobs. Illegals are making those jobs unattractive and worthless. I am saying this as someone who lives with and know lots of illegal migrants. I myself am a landscaper. I have a license in CA I also have degrees and certificates in agriculture, horticulture, landscape design, and business. It’s very difficult to compete with the mow and blow guy charging $10-$30 bucks for monthly service. Landscaping prices are all severely low. I am only in business because I adopted both quality of work and mow and blow strategies. I took a best of both worlds approach and that’s what keeps me in business. But I know other landscapers that only want to do quality work but are out of business because the can’t compete with the low prices. That is why we need strong immigration control. To control the inflow of unskilled workers so that the supply of unskilled workers meets the demand and wages can catch up.
@@biggus6633 It could of been worded differently, but that person got the point across. Yes there is North America and Latin America, but it is all America.This division is indeed due to Europeans coming to colonize America. Latin America is Latin America because those countries speak Romance languages and those languages are spoken because of the European countries that colonized and brought their language. All Americans are descendants of indigenous people native of this land (North and South).
Yes another how does it grow!!!
They're paid by the bucket... no wonder they're running so fast
That, or else they run to be near such a lovely lady.....I sure would. Oh, er..uh...let me get back to the task at hand; picking fruit.
If you want to pay them more, why don't you buy a farm, grow cucumbers and hire all these illegals and pay them $50 dollars an hour. Hell, why don't you pay them $100 an hour, it's your farm, you can pay them whatever you want.
For anyone who love to virtue-signal, as if you're such a good kind person, why don't you walk your talk and do something about it. Take action, instead of just empty talk. Full of complaints.
Are you just a virtue signaler?
I think you are.
@@terriesmith8219 he wouldn't be farming for very long. That's for sure.
@Al Castill
So does everything else in life.
Ballerina, sports players, farmers, dancers, etc.
Everything in life can harm one's body.
@@terriesmith8219 it's a fact that they get paid by the bucket which is why i said "no wonder they're running so fast" lmaaooooo i didn't say anything about giving them higher wages you brought that on yourself
I love you guys! This show highlights such important lessons such as the hard work of these farmers and the price disparity of ugly and pretty fruits and veggies. Keep up the good work!
Yay you're back!! Missed your "How does it grow" videos so much 🥰🥰
6:01 Damn those dudes must be super strong! Tossing those baskets up like that!
Those are some hard ass working ppl! Thank u for the hard work u do!
You know they get paid for doing this work . we all do our part in this society to make it happen.
Dan Dan there’s always an a-hole.
Awesome video as usual Nicole. Back in India (southern India) my grand parents used to say "we should always cut the ends first, if not it makes the entire cucumber bitter", i don't think they knew about the bitter chemicals were concentrated in those ends, but many time we didn't listen to their advice we ended up spitting out a bitter cucumber !! 😓
I major in agriculture and horticulture at Korea, your contents are so helpful for me thank you so much!
i would have loved to see the wash and wax part. Great video!
I’m still in uni and it’s not easy balancing how much you make with how much you have to pay right now but when I finally finish and work full time. I will be back to donate as a show of gratitude for all the wonderful content you have uploaded. Thank you for the videos and thank you for the patience 🙂❤️
And... Finally..!!!
Happy to see how does it grow series back. :)
Wow I love your hair. U are so cute
Me too
I had been waiting for "how does it grow " for like ages ...
Finally it's back...
Thankyou
Today i discovered your channel me and my mom watched almost all videos of how does it grow ❤❤
Love this episode! ❤️
Pls refrain from posting any negativity in the comment section. We don't need it. Let's just appreciate the video!
I always get sentimental when I see my fellow hardworking latinos. Buen trabajo chicos y chicas. Saludos desde Cancún!
I wondered where you'd gotten to. The level of enthusiasm, and the expression of pure joy you have when you're making these films really captures your passion for this subject. It makes a simple video about cucumbers quite riveting to watch.
Han, it's always lovely to hear from you. Thanks for the encouragement!
All my friends think I'm a botanist, little do they know all the information come from your amazing informative videos! Thank you for spreading knowledge! 😊
So funny! Your secret is safe with me. ;)
Your back!! Looking forward to fresh veggies from my garden!!
Thank you for sharing another video 😊
Just started getting ready for putting plants in the ground next week so I’m watching various stuff for no reason. I love gardening and growing your own foods 👍
It's nice to see you having fun. That's how everyone makes it through the day.
I'm so proud of my hardworking people.
Awesome episode as always! My family in Germany grow cucumbers in their garden and quite often make cucumber salad, without any type of lettuce. The dressing or sauce is homemade and tastes like a family trade secret but maybe more common there than I think. I am growing some cucumbers in my garden here in the US and this episode has opened up my eyes on some key facts. Thank you as always for your channel's high quality content and positive production. Keep up the good work and keep growing!
My God! just thinking and talking about farming is exhausting! thank you so much to all the good people who work so hard to grow our food!
Cucumbers 🥒 Finally the wait is over 😍😍😍
It was great to meet you and your son today at CHMS, what a lovely little guy he is! Thanks for letting me show him the playground. Your RUclips is awesome and something that could be a really great fit with our school. Hopefully, you and Amanda can connect this summer.
Sandy Cattafesta
I’m so happy to see ur sunshine smile again . Thanks for your amazing works
No"hum-drum Cucumbers in my salad we love em.
They add the moisture to any salad.
Thanks Nicole again for your teaching.
Such a teacher you are" Lady of You Tube"
Nicole is back😍
Thank you so much for this episode. You mentioned about English cucumbers, pickles, but not about Persian cucumbers.
Bird, try "muncher". Seeds are cheap. A bit finicky growing and tasting depending on conditions. Trying second time this year
Please make more videos, you're one of my favourite youtubers....I love your videos it's very educational
I’ve been waiting for this video and the crazy thing is it’s my BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Thank you Nicole!!!
Yay! Your back! I just became a member, can't wait for more videos!
Kathryn - thank you so much for your True Food love!
This is the type of content I love on RUclips.
At last a new from my idol.... 😀 the long wait is over
... thank you so much.... i miss you!!!!
The best presenter I have seen!
She make even cucumber worth learning.
Cucumber fruits actually taste good, I made some into a smoothie once.
This is an amazing show. It always puts a smile on my face and teaches me a lot about plants.
amazing to see how it's all interconnected, bees, farmers, the plants.
Here now. Been waiting for this.
❤️🇵🇭
Once again, 🐝🐝🐝🐝 save the day
Finally. Love the video, thanks!
Cucumber 😂😂😂
Dude 😂
appreciating the worker for their hard work
I love this series. i reference it to people at least once a week. "Did you know..." "I saw it in a video..." etc
Deserved to be supported by TV show. very educational to every people watching this .. Filipino here watching😁
@TrueFoodTV ...Thank you very much, on understanding & knowledge on Nutrients. Some people on Gardens or Grocers..
Some has cancer & some Medical Bad things. I have several on my life on from me & millions peoples on help on "Nutrition on Help" on, cancer, kidneys, liver and etc. Mostly, not all wrong, from Health and has alcohol, narcotics & some worse.
I have on my "Kidneys" on bad & my Doctor, don't on eat Potassium...
I have a friend that his Doctor has LOW Potassium..
I have on our Gardens (Grandpa} 1 more Acre on farms stuffs. Now I, am not these on Cooperative Foods.. Like on 'Lettuce' on is on there water on "feces" (poopoo)..
vegetalfruits on BIG Groceries. They have NOTHING on there papers, stickies or we don't KNOW!?!??
Thank you True Food!!
Farmers are very important. Thank you for all your hard work, you it makes things a little bit easier for the rest of us.
I only recently found this channel. Nicole and her husband bring such joy, such "young adult" energy, fun and a PBS like education vibe that I really enjoy a lot better than PBS or similar.
I am going to join their channel and support this couple who I think are doing an outstanding job doing what they seem to love and educating us on all things food.
Is it possible to have an Alton Brown and/ or Lan Lam on a cooking science episode too? These two food enthusiasts bring such an awesome science vibe to cooking and foods in general.
Edit: Ms Jolly, your "dad hats" are out of stock and you need a say heather gray or similar make male t shirt with "True Food tv" on it.
Thanks so much, we love hearing this! Will look into the merch store issues, thanks for the heads-up.
I'm appreciating cucumbers much more now 😩❤️
I miss thiiiiiiss!!!! So happy you released another very informative video ♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏
Yay! Another video! I'll be a patron one of these days! I wanna keep seeing them!!
The best thing is when you picking cucumber and freshly eat it, it's so refreshing in a hot days
I have not nor will I ever take cucumbers for granted☺️
She had a big smile on her face when she had a good grip on that cucumber.
I’ve been waiting 6 months for this! Yaaaaassss!! 🙌🏻
mad thumbs up for the people that pick our food and are sometimes exploited. Glad to see the whole works in each of your shows!
Excellent program, I wish it continues forever thank you
I'll think of all the hard workers harvesting and processing cucumbers every time I eat one now-- and I eat some just about every day. Thanks to all of the guys out there running with their buckets.
Everytime we watch your videos...it just feels awesome😍😍love from india
I'm in love with this lady, as much as I an in love with the show.
She is striking! I grow my own organic food however, my first reason for subscribing to the channel was because of her!😶 She's cuuuute!😍 Second reason is for the knowledge!🤔😊
I really like the way you explain everything, clear voice and very good pronounciation. Almost everyone can understand the way you discuss things. 😃👍
This video reminds me of my childhood time when I lived in my grandparent place. Some farmers plant cucumber and I used to play around the trees. Very nice video thank you so much I got a lot of new information. One of them, I just realised that most of the farm workers in USA are from Latin America, I guess they are from Mexico, aren't they?
i love the transformation of your channel.
Planting my cucumbers Monday. First day of my vacation. All for pickles. You should’ve stopped by and got a jar when you were in Georgia. Fantastic video again! #truefood
Dwayne! Good to see you here. That sounds like it was our loss. How many jars do you pickle for the season?
Wow! Yellowed cucumbers taste super! Mix a little chilli and salt and your good to go! Great video as per usual😍
About time!!!! Haha thank you for the video!
🎉
Wow! I live in Georgia and I didn’t even know it was the top producer for cucumbers.
You don't know how happy I was to see this😭
Huge fan of Nicole’s work, these videos are so entertaining.
Just signed up as a member. I wish I'd seen this possibility earlier.
I would hate to make you big-hearted, but you're my favourite channel on RUclips.
I'm so happy to be a member of your community.
Chris, thank you SO MUCH! I am honored to have your support!
Hi
This video is awesome I really love it.
Actually I am Agronomist from Baghdad and grow many crops a round the country.
One of this crops is cucumber.
I like the the type of plantation in this video.
Good luck and I can't wait to see your next video.
Great to have you here Bashar Hassan. And keep up the great work!
Finally, Nicole. Happy to see a new of your video. Different way growing cucumber.
I can't stand this much gap in releasing videos.
Love your videos 💓.
Workers like these are the real heros. Look at them go
Better than watch national geographic, i always wait for the new video
Your statement about growing bitter cucumber is really true
😂. I was shocked when my first fruits almost all bitter.
Laila Dimyati exactly! So true
My favorite series ❤️
How does it grow is back! And I'm super happy ❤️ We missed this episodes ❤️❤️ Always the best videos b/c of you Nicole :)
Aw, thank you so much!
I really love this “how does it grow” please post more 🥺
This channel deserve more views
I look forward to watching your videos.
Thanks Nicole
SO GOOD. So good to watch your show again.
Thank you so much for this new video. I use your shows to improve my english and they work very well 👍🇮🇹
Please do more of these over the summer i love these
Been waiting for new episode. Thanks for this one 😊
Love the videos, really informative and I love learning about plants especially the ones in my garden :)
Thank you!🥒Love it! my 6yo & I have been eating Cucumbers...it's hot here! I thought they were fruit! 💚 I can understand the practicality of packing and shipping straight cucumbers, curved ones will take up more space...
This video is really awesome and I was so amazed hearing the size of this farm, it blew my mind. Whao whao am just so amazed with this farm done manually. Kudos to you guys
Love every episode, so informative and entertaining. Thanks for doing what you do!
I have been waiting forever for another video. 🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️
I love this channel so much. I learn a lot of interesting things about the food I eat.
I love this channel, so refreshing...
TRUE FOOD TV makes my cucumber grow just by watching
It’s fascinating how different this is to how English, Seedless cucumbers are grown! 90% of the cucumbers I’ve eaten have been the seedless sort but it wasn’t until I came to university that I discovered how they’re grown to be seedless. Unlike the slicing cucumbers, these cucumbers are grown to actively avoid pollination. Because cucumbers are dioecious, only female plants are grown to maturity and if a Male is grown by mistake; it can make all of the cucumbers surrounding it turn bitter as the bitter compounds only form when the plant is pollenated. After the plant waits long enough for pollination and doesn’t get it, it produces the fruits from the female flower with unfertilised ‘seeds’ which are very small and insignificant. I personally prefer English cucumbers to slicing ones but I didn’t know how different the two were until I watched this video; having only been taught about English ones.
Well done, Thomas! I had a few lines about this in the original script, but because we didn't get to film a greenhouse growing seedless, I felt it was too boring to get into without seeing it. But I did NOT know that bitterness is a result of pollination! I can't believe I didn't come across that in my research. Fascinating! Thank you.
TRUE FOOD TV Well it’s the case unless my university professor was lying to me 😂. I wonder if it’s the same for courgettes and marrows; or even gourds and other savoury Cucurbits 🤷🏼♂️
TRUE FOOD TV (And thanks but I take no credit for sitting in compulsory lectures 😂)
Glad to see another episode!
I love your shows .Keep up the great work. Love from Singapore
Thank you so much for your support! Sending love right back to Singapore (a GREAT food town)!
Your videos are so interesting, the visuals and the sounds are always very nice and the sound of your voice as well.
My Dog loves cucumbers
Mom loves bitter melon, health she says...I tried and 😵! Red t-shirt in green plantation was great! ❤️
Mochigome 5521
Mostly older asians appreciate the taste of bitter melon. My parents like it too.
I like stir frying it with meat, tomatoes, garlic, onions, ginger and maybe an egg if there is any left:)
You're back! Thanks for the new video 😘