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Cucumber tomato salad

Name: Cucumber tomato salad
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 large cucumber, half-moons; 2 large tomato, wedges; 1/2 small red onions, thin slices; 2 tbsp olive oil; 4 tsp red wine vinegar; 1/2 tsp dried oregano; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Five minutes, five ingredients, endlessly repeated all summer: cucumber and tomato in a red-wine vinaigrette with red onion. The salad that needs no lettuce.

Time: 10 min (10 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 94 kcal
Protein: 1 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1 large cucumber, half-moons400 g
2 large tomato, wedges300 g
1/2 small red onions, thin slices60 g
2 tbsp olive oil25 g
4 tsp red wine vinegar20 g
1/2 tsp dried oregano1 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
1/4 tsp black pepper1 g

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Steps

Salt the cucumber and tomato in the bowl and let them sit 5 minutes; their juice becomes part of the dressing.
Add the onion, oil, vinegar, oregano and pepper and toss.
Serve within the hour — this salad is at its best young.

Why this score

a satiety booster

Exceptional fullness per calorie — but at only 47 kcal per 100 g, it can't fill you up on its own. Its power is making a meal bigger and more filling at almost no calorie cost; pair it with protein.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

6% of kcal

92% water

20 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

13%

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 378 kcal goes into the pot, 810 g of ingredients comes out as ~800 g of food → 47 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 47
Protein: (6%); 1 g
Fat: (62%); 3 g
Carbohydrates: (32%); 4 g
of which sugar: 2 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 149 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.