An expert has issued a warning to people who eat cucumber (Image: Getty) Cucumbers can be a popular snack or a quick and easy addition to your summery salads, but an expert has issued a warning over the vegetable. Nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert, who specialises in weight management, has sounded the alarm to anyone who regularly eats them. According to Rhiannon, the cucumber might not be as nutritional as fans first thought.

In fact, she says the vegetable is best eaten for hydration due to it being predominantly made up of water. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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Log('[Load] OVP tcfLoaded',new Date())})}},1500)}) Writing in the Daily Telegraph, she said: “Cucumber is a refreshing vegetable with a very high (96 per cent) water content, making it hydrating but relatively low in nutrients. "While it does provide some nutrients such as B vita.