Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions. Yet breeding improved varieties—plants that are more resilient, produce ...

Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its most severe recall warning for cucumber products distributed across multiple states because of salmonella contamination. Chefs Warehouse, based in ...

If you’re scanning the produce aisles at the grocery store, it can be difficult to recognize a zucchini vs. cucumber from a few steps away. Frankly, it can still be difficult to tell these two oblong, ...

Three summers ago, Kiel University biomechanist Stainslav Gorb, returned to Germany after a vacation in Turkey with a present for Ph.D. student Helen Gorges. "He came back and was like, 'Helen, I ...

Audrey Morgan is a senior editor at Food & Wine with over eight years of experience covering food and drinks. She has held staff positions at Liquor.com and Food Network Magazine, and her work has ...

A salmonella outbreak tore through the country last spring and summer, infecting more than 550 people and sending 155 to the hospital. The likely culprit wasn’t raw eggs or undercooked chicken but an ...

A cucumber recall has been linked to a salmonella outbreak in multiple states, including Illinois and Michigan, and is under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency ...

A new salmonella outbreak involving cucumbers has led to another recall as investigators work to determine just how many were distributed in the U.S. The outbreak is linked to the same grower whose ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of cucumbers grown by Bedner Growers and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales because of a multistate Salmonella outbreak that has sickened more ...