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How do you pare a cucumber?

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Paring is basically removing the outer layer of a fruit or vegetable, so you simply use a vegetable peeler, and cut the ends off the cucumber. Alternately, you could obviously use a knife, but it's harder to do. Keep in mind that cucumbers have relatively little nutrition, and most of it is, if fact in the peel. So is the fiber.

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