Cucumber Ribbon and Pulse Salad

You may not be familiar with the term pulses to describe a food group, but you have likely eaten them. Pulses refers to the dried, edible seed of legume plants and includes 12 different crops. These plants have been grown specifically for their dried seeds, included in this group are dried peas, dried beans, lentils, and chickpeas. Pulses are such an important and impactful food group that the United Nations designated 2016 as the International Year of Pulses.

Cucumbers have a very high water content and few calories. Learn more about cucumbers here.

Antibiotics have been used for thousands of years, scientists have found evidence of their use in ancient Roman and African civilizations. The use of antibiotics is especially prevalent in traditional medicinal practices, such as Chinese medicine where they have uses plants and plant extracts containing antimicrobials for thousands of years.