Rumor: Cucumbers with flowers are used with hormones, which are harmful to health.
Truth: Flowers on the top do not prove the use of hormones. Cucumbers with prickly flowers on the top should be eaten at ease.
Cucumber flower is a perennial flower. After pollination, it can not fall off immediately, but wait for the cucumber fruit to grow for a while before falling off.
Therefore, [top flower], to some extent, has become a sign to judge whether cucumbers are tender or old.
If this plant hormone is accidentally smeared on the flower, it will make the flower adhere more closely to the top of the cucumber, or it will not fall off at all.
However, there is really no need to worry too much. As mentioned earlier, the amount of these plant hormones themselves will not be very large and will not act on the human body. Cucumber with prickly top flowers should be eaten at ease.