Plants are clever. They store water for dry times. A cucumber is a master at this. It’s like a natural water bottle wrapped in green skin.
But here’s the wild part. If you could squeeze the water out of one cucumber, you’d get about half a cup. That’s a solid gulp of H2O. Eat a whole cucumber, and you’ve drunk a glass of water.
Don’t believe me? Try leaving a cucumber on your counter for a week. It shrivels up like a raisin. That lost weight? All water. It literally evaporates into thin air.