# burping cucumbers

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-cucumbers/146653 "2003-01-04T20:53:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-cucumbers/146653/1 "2003-01-04T20:53:56Z")

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Everytime I eat a cucumber, even hours later, i burp its flavor.  
Why does this happen?  
And why only with certain foods?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-cucumbers/146653/2 "2003-01-04T23:41:47Z")

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Cucumbers are somewhat reputed to this effect. Although I’ve never personally had a problem with it, I’m told that it is the outer skin that causes it - if you eat your cucumbers peeled, you may not suffer.

Alternatively, there are so-called ‘burpless’ varieties available (to the gardener for home growing - I’ve never seen them on the supermarket shelf)