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Nutrition dataRaw lotus root carries 44 mg of vitamin C, 556 mg of potassium and 4.9 g of fibre per 100 g. But it is almost always eaten cooked, so you do not take that 44 mg across intact.

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Nutrition dataAll three clinical trials on cucumber used extracts. The lipid trial used seed extract; the osteoarthritis trials used standardised extract. This site could not find a trial that fed cucumber, measured anything and compared against a control.

Vegetables
Nutrition dataIn a three-arm trial of 180 people, beans lowered LDL by 0.21 mmol/L while peas managed 0.11 with a confidence interval crossing zero. The composition is good — 5.42 g of protein, 40 mg of vitamin C and 5.7 g of fibre per 100 g.

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Nutrition dataBamboo shoots contain taxiphyllin, a cyanogenic glycoside that poses a toxicity risk if they are not prepared properly. Boiling, fermentation and steaming reduce it. The composition itself is 27 kcal and 533 mg of potassium per 100 g.

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Nutrition dataEggplant has long been sold in Brazil as a folk remedy for high cholesterol, so it was put through two randomised trials. Both matched placebo. The 2004 trial stated outright that the placebo group changed the same way. The 25 kcal and 3.0 g of fibre per 100 g are real.

Vegetables
Nutrition data"Aspartic acid cures a hangover" is a widespread belief, but this site found no randomised trial in people where feeding soybean sprouts changed a hangover measure. The 172 µg of folate, 15.3 mg of vitamin C and 13.1 g of protein are real.

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Nutrition dataBitter melon contains compounds that act somewhat like insulin. Results in human trials, however, are not consistent.