How to Store Vegetables

Cucumbers Are A Water Based Vegetable

Due to its high water content that makes proper storage essential to your cucumbers freshness. Firmness and freshness are associated with water loss. If cucumbers are still green, water loss may occur during prolonged holding at or below recommended temperatures. However, to prevent water loss, seedless greenhouse cucumbers which have a thin skin are shrink wrapped. Cucumbers are susceptible to high and low temperature injury. Chilling damage will occur in cucumbers that are stored at 10°C (50°F), therefore cucumbers must be stored at temperatures between 10°C (50°F) and 15°C (59°F) with the optimum temperature between 12°C (53.6°F) and 13°C (55°F).

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