Cucumbers contain growth hormone

Chinese food experts warn consumers to be cautious about cucumbers with flowers under fruit because they contain growth hormones.

Currently, the types of yellow cucumbers in the bottom of the fruit are being sold popularly in markets in Giao Nam city (Shandong, China). This melon is preferred by many consumers because it looks fresh and soft.

Cucumber type also yellow flower bottom may contain growth hormone (Artwork)

However, according to a store's sale of this item in Qingdao Post on February 16, ' Who sells this fruit also knows it contains growth hormone. This can completely harm consumers 'health.'

According to the above salesman, normally cucumbers when they grow old will lose flowers, however, when using this growth hormone, it will remain fresh even after harvest. The melon growers use hormones to help the melon shorten by half the growth time.

This hormone is sold abundantly in the free market. A farmer named Xue revealed to Qingdao that some farmers have produced their own liquid hormones mixed from contraceptive compounds.

Associate Professor Yang Yanjie of Qingdao University of Agriculture said that the effect of this hormone on the body is unverified because no experiments have been conducted. ' But farmers' use of aphrodisiacs is a violation of natural development laws and violates the law, people should not buy them .'