Nutritional value and edible effects of bamboo shoots

Bamboo shoots are tender and delicious when stir-fried, especially with some meat. Let’s learn about it together.

Bamboo shoots introduction

Bamboo shoots are the edible part of the young plants of the grass family, such as moso bamboo, without the sheath. They are mainly grown in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces.

There are many types of bamboo, and moso bamboo is one of them. Its underground stems are called "bamboo whips", which are thick and horizontal in the soil, with nodes, and the buds on the sides of the nodes are bamboo shoots.

The bamboo shoots are plump, cylindrical and pagoda-shaped, with a pointed top and a round bottom, and a node in the middle; the veins and hairs on the outer shell are yellow; the flesh is white or light yellow, tender and fresh.

Fresh bamboo shoots are divided into winter bamboo shoots and spring bamboo shoots. Winter bamboo shoots are dug in winter when the bamboo shoots have not yet emerged from the ground, and their quality is the best; spring bamboo shoots are dug in spring when the bamboo shoots have already emerged from the ground, and their quality is lower.

The quality requirements for bamboo shoots are: fresh and tender, thick and with short internodes, milky white or light yellow flesh, free of mold, disease and insect pests.

Nutritional value of bamboo shoots

1. Appetite and spleen strengthening:

Bamboo shoots contain a white nitrogen-containing substance, which constitutes the unique fragrance of bamboo shoots. It has the effect of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, and enhancing appetite. It can be used to treat indigestion, abdominal distension, and poor appetite.

2. It can relieve chest tightness, relieve diaphragm discomfort, and promote bowel movement:

Bamboo shoots are sweet, cold and beneficial to the digestive system. The plant fiber they contain can increase the amount of water stored in the intestines, promote gastrointestinal motility, reduce intestinal pressure, reduce stool viscosity, and make stool softer and easier to excrete. They are used to treat constipation and prevent colon cancer.

3. Open the diaphragm and eliminate phlegm:

Bamboo shoots are low in sugar and fat, rich in plant fiber, can reduce excess body fat, eliminate phlegm and blood stasis, treat high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and high blood sugar, and have a certain preventive effect on digestive tract cancer and breast cancer.

4. Enhance the body's immunity:

Bamboo shoots are generally regarded as a product that "scrapes away fat and oil". However, bamboo shoots are high in plant protein, vitamins and trace elements, which help to enhance the body's immune function and improve disease resistance.

Effects of eating bamboo shoots

Bamboo shoots are sweet, slightly cold in nature, and enter the stomach and lung meridians;

It has the effects of nourishing yin and cooling blood, harmonizing the middle and moistening the intestines, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, quenching thirst and relieving restlessness, clearing away heat and invigorating qi, relieving diaphragm and refreshing the stomach, promoting diuresis and relieving constipation, detoxifying and clearing rashes, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, and digesting food. It can also stimulate appetite and invigorate the spleen, widen the intestines and relieve diaphragm, promote bowel movements, open the diaphragm and resolve phlegm, eliminate greasiness, and detoxify alcohol.

It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as loss of appetite, poor appetite, abdominal distension and chest tightness, constipation, phlegm stagnation, obesity, and nausea due to drunkenness.

Bamboo shoots are suitable for people

It is edible for general population.

1. It is especially suitable for people with obesity and habitual constipation;

2. People with gastric ulcer, gastric bleeding, nephritis, liver cirrhosis, enteritis, urinary tract stones, low calcium, osteoporosis, and rickets should not eat too much.

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