Keep Cool: Eat cucumbers!

Did you know that cucumbers really are "cool"? It's true! It's much much cooler inside of a cucumber than outside! Take advantage of this fact by eating lots of cooling cucumbers on hot summer days. Add cucumber slices to salads, sandwiches, wraps, cold noodle dishes or pasta salads. Here's some easy and fun cucumber recipes to try:

• Cool Cucumber Salad Dressing
• Chilled Cucumber Soup
• Creamy Cucumber and Mint Salad
• Cucumber and Hummus Sandwich
• Vegan Cucumber Tzatziki
• Chinese Cucumber Salad

Photo courtesy stock.xchng