Bamboo shoot, also known as bamboo shoot, bamboo bud, it is the seedlings of various kinds of bamboo, such as mao bamboo(giant hairy sheath edible bamboo, Phyllostachys pubescen), it is edible, mainly growing in China's Yangtze river area and other provinces.
There are many kinds of bamboo, one of which is bamboo. Its underground stem is called "bamboo whip", which is stout and runs across the earth, the seedlings come out of the soil are known as bamboo shoot.
Bamboo shoot body is fat, cylindrical pagoda shape, the top tip is sharp, the middle node is a circle; the veins and hairs of the shell of the bamboo shoot are yellow. Bamboo shoot meat white or light yellow, tender, fresh taste.
There are two kinds of fresh bamboo shoots: winter bamboo shoot and spring bamboo shoot. Winter bamboo shoot is excavated in the winter when the bamboo shoot has not been excavated yet. This kind of bamboo shoot is of the better quality.
Quality requirements of bamboo shoots: fresh and tender, thick and short meat internodes, milk-white or light yellow meat, no mildew, no pests, and diseases is preferred.
Bamboo shoot, that is, the tender stem of bamboo, tender fragrance, delicious taste, has always been known as "the first plant in vegetables." Bamboo shoot is low sugar low-fat high fiber food, it contains more crude fiber, promote intestinal peristalsis, help digestion, relieve constipation, so also known as "scraping fat vegetable", is a kind of effective weight loss health care vegetables. The taste of bamboo shoots is sweet and cool, with the function of "benefit none openings, smooth blood vessels, transform phlegm and saliva, relieve digestion." (Gang Mu Shi Yi, or Supplements of Compendium of Materia Medica). Often eat it can clear heat and dissolve phlegm, benefit diaphragm Qi, promote acne broke out. Can treat dropsy, acute nephritis, diabetes, adverse bowel movements, and other diseases.
Bamboo shoots:Nutritional values.
Bamboo shoots have been regarded as a "treasure in Chinese cuisine" since ancient times. In terms of nutrition, in the past, many people thought that although bamboo shoots taste delicious, there is no nutrition, some even think that "eat a meal bamboo shoots to scrape three days of oil." This perception is inaccurate. In fact, bamboo shoots are rich in protein, amino acid, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamin B1, B2, and C. Every 100g of fresh bamboo shoots contains 9.79g of dry matter, 3.28g of protein, 4.47g of carbohydrates, 0.9g of cellulose, 0.13g of fat, 22mg of calcium, 56mg of phosphorus and 0.1mg of iron. Moreover, the protein of bamboo shoots is superior. The essential lysine, tryptophan, threonine, and phenylalanine, as well as glutamate, which plays an important effect in protein metabolism and cystine, which plays a role in maintaining protein configuration, are all contained to some extent and are excellent health care vegetables.
Bamboo shoots contain starch and fat content is less, is a low fat, low sugar, low caloric food, and bamboo shoots also contains very rich cellulose of the role of "scraping", this kind of material can absorb fat, promote the efficacy of food fermentation, digestion and promote excretion, many girls are put it as the good food for reducing weight.
Bamboo shoots are not only rich in nutrients, but also have high medicinal value. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, bamboo shoots taste sweet, some slightly bitter, cold nature, can dissolve phlegm Qi, clearing away heat and trouble, prompt diuresis, and defecation. Ancient works Ming Yi Bie Lu record its "for thirst, benefit water channel, benefit Qi, can eat for a long time"; Gang Mu Shi Yi, or Supplements of Compendium of Materia Medica record that "benefit none openings, smooth blood vessels, transform phlegm and saliva, relieve digestion.", especially good at clearing hot phlegm.
Bamboo shoot is a Traditional Chinese delicacy with a long history of consumption and cultivation. There are lines in Shi Jing(the book of poems), such as "adding beans with solid flesh, bamboo shoot curly fish meat sauce", which indicate that people have been eating bamboo shoots for 2,500 to 3,000 years.
Chinese medicine believes that bamboo shoots taste sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic. It has the effect of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, benefiting Qi and stomach, treating thirst, benefiting channel and relieving diaphragm. Bamboo shoots are also low in fat, sugar, and fiber. Eating bamboo shoots can not only promote intestinal peristalsis, but also help digestion, prevent constipation and prevent colorectal cancer. Bamboo shoot contains adipose, starch very little, belong to the food of natural low fat, low quantity of heat, it is a good article that fat person reduces weight. Health experts believe that people in bamboo forests live long lives and rarely suffer from high blood pressure, which has something to do with eating bamboo shoots.
Bamboo shoot, the tender developing bud from the rhizome of bamboo, cut off as soon as it reaches the ground like a vegetable, especially eaten by the Chinese.
Bamboo shoots are native to China and widely distributed in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions. The part eaten as a vegetable is the bamboo shoot(lateral shoot of the underground stem).
Bamboo shoots are good for health.
✵1. Low calorie: what many people don't realize is that bamboo shoots are low in calories. 100 grams of bamboo shoots only have 27 calories. Therefore, it is a good choice for dieters.
✵2. Rich in fiber: another important health benefit of bamboo shoots is to help people lose weight, as they are rich in fiber. So this food also helps us suppress hunger. In addition, the high fiber content also helps digestion and treats constipation, so it is also good for digestive health. The fibers from bamboo shoots also act as body cooling agents.
✵3. Potassium: bamboo shoots are rich in potassium. Potassium is a mineral that regulates blood pressure. Therefore, consuming bamboo shoots helps keep blood pressure healthy.
✵4. The health benefits of bamboo shoots also include antioxidant properties, which are especially beneficial for preventing cancer and strengthening the immune system. It contains anti-inflammatory ingredients that can also reduce the risk of underlying diseases. Traditional medicine has long used bamboo shoots as a herbal ingredient to treat convulsions caused by the gallbladder.
✵5. Bamboo shoots are also one of the better options for people who want to use natural remedies to lower their cholesterol levels. Studies have shown that consuming bamboo shoots is associated with reduced "bad cholesterol," so it can reduce the risk of heart disease.
The effect and function of bamboo shoot.
Bamboo shoots are known as "vegetarian first", not only is a vegetable but also medicine. According to traditional Chinese medicine records, the taste of winter bamboo shoots is sweet and cold, and it has the functions of "enriching seven orifices, smooth blood vessels, reducing phlegm and saliva, and eliminating food and bloating." Modern medicine thinks the bamboo shoot has such effect, so eats a bamboo shoot, has the effect of losing weight. It is an effective diuretic, suitable for edema, ascites, beriberi, acute nephritis edema, wheezing cough, diabetes, thirst relieving, dysphoria, and so on. Health experts believe that people in bamboo forests live longer and rarely suffer from high blood pressure, which is related to eating bamboo shoots.
✵1. Strengthen the spleen by boosting appetite: Bamboo shoot contains a white nitrogenous substance, which constitutes the unique fragrance of the bamboo shoot and has the effect of appetizing, promoting digestion and enhancing appetite. It can be used to treat such diseases as stomach distention, indigestion, and bad appetite.
Bamboo shoot contains a white nitrogenous substance, which constitutes the unique fragrance of the bamboo shoot and has the effect of appetizing, promoting digestion and enhancing appetite.
✵2. Smooth chest, diaphragm, bowel movement: Bamboo shoot tastes sweet and nature cold, the plant fiber it contains can increase the amount of intestinal water storage, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce intestinal pressure, reduce the viscosity of the stool, make stool soft and excrement, used to treat constipation, prevent bowel cancer; in addition, its high content of cellulose in the intestine can reduce the body's absorption of fat, reduce the incidence of diseases related to high blood lipids;
✵3. Open diaphragm to eliminate phlegm: Bamboo shoots are characterized by low sugar and fat, rich in plant fiber, which can reduce excess fat in the body, eliminate phlegm and remove stasis, treat hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia, and play a certain role in preventing gastrointestinal cancer and breast cancer.
✵4. Enhance the body's immunity: The content of plant protein, vitamin and trace elements in bamboo shoots is very high, which helps to enhance the immune function of the body and improve the ability of disease prevention and resistance.
✵5. Prevent heart disease: Bamboo shoots are rich in protein, which can provide the body with proper nutrients, enhance the body's resistance and prevent arteriosclerosis. Prepare a decoction with bamboo shoots, wax gourd peel, it may help to treat heart disease.
The dishes made with bamboo shoots and dried bamboo shoots have unique flavors, such as braised meat with smoked bamboo shoots, braised duck with smoked bamboo shoots, braised bamboo shoots with smoked bamboo shoots, smoked bamboo shoots hot pot and pickled bamboo shoots with pickled pepper. Modern nutrition research shows that bamboo shoots are rich in protein, carotene, vitamins, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, and other inorganic salts and 18 kinds of amino acids beneficial to health. The bamboo shoot also contains a variety of polysaccharides that can prevent cancer, which is an ideal health care product.
How to eat bamboo shoots well
✵(I).Food guide:
Fresh bamboo shoots are available all year round, but the bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots have the better flavor. When cooking, whether it is cold, fried or boiled soup, are fresh and fresh fragrance, is one of the dishes that people like. Bamboo shoot is the embryonic form of a bamboo pole. The longitudinal section shows that there are many transverse septa in the middle and around the thick bamboo shoot meat, which is wrapped by a bamboo sheath. Bamboo shoot meat, transverse septum and tender part of the bamboo sheath are edible.
The bamboo shoots peak in 3 ~ 6 years after the bamboo whip is drawn, and winter bamboo shoots can be dug in winter. The bamboo shoots are harvested around tomb-sweeping day, and the quality of bamboo shoots is better than that of bamboo shoots. After two years of planting, bamboo shoots began to be harvested from tufted bamboos, and the harvest period was from April to November and from July to August. Bamboo shoot head just out of the soil is suitable for harvesting, too late harvesting, much fiber, bitter taste. Bamboo shoots, also known as yulan slices, are available in winter, spring and summer.
✵How to cook bamboo shoots: The fresh bamboo shoot has high water content, the bamboo shoot has 90% water content and the winter bamboo shoot has 85% water content. As a vegetable, it has always been loved by people, its flavor delicious, and is regarded as the treasure in the dish. Bamboo shoots should not be eaten rawly. When cooked alone, they taste bitter and astringent. However, when stir-fried with meat, they taste delicious. Bamboo shoots can be used in soup or cooking, and many delicious dishes can be made. Such as bamboo shoots carp soup, bamboo shoots pork, bamboo shoots boiled white porridge, bamboo shoots into dried bamboo shoots, yulan slices and canned.
✵(2).Guidance on making bamboo shoots:
Bamboo shoots are suitable for stir-frying, roasting, stir-frying.
Bamboo shoots are available all year round, but only the spring bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots have the better flavor. When cooking, whether it is cold, fried or boiled soup, are fresh and fragrant, is one of the dishes that people like. Before eating, blanch the bamboo shoots with boiled water to remove oxalic acid.
Bamboo shoots can be eaten freshly, dried or canned.
The part close to the head of bamboo shoots should be cut, the lower should be cross-cut, so cooked not only easy to rot but also easier to taste.
Do not peel the fresh bamboo shoots when stored, or they will lose their fragrance.
✵How to preserve bamboo shoots: fresh bamboo shoots are fresh vegetables. The fresher they are, the more tender they are. Just buy some bamboo shoots, spread some salt on the cut surface, and refrigerate them to make them taste fresh and delicious. The storage of winter bamboo shoots is mainly to prevent water loss, which can be stored in the following ways:
✵How to preserve bamboo shoots:
1. Select the complete and harmless winter bamboo shoots and put them into a plastic bag. Tie the bag tightly.
2. Store the bamboo shoots in the bottom layer of the wooden box with 2-3 inches of wet sand. Then bury the bamboo shoots with wet sand and shoot the sand.
✵Why is the newly bought bamboo shoot taste bitter?
Some citizens go to the market to buy bamboo shoots, know a pungent smell, use it to cook bamboo shoots stir-fried meat, but taste bitter.
Quality supervision experts advised when buying bamboo shoots do not choose those who look fresh and very bright, most of these are treated with sulfur fumigation. Pollution-free fresh bamboo shoots should be yellowish or yellowish-brown in color, with a bamboo scent. If the taste of the tip of the tongue has a spicy feeling, smell and pungent eyes, indicating that there is sulfur residue, should be careful to buy.
Bamboo shoots have astringent taste. When eating, put the bamboo shoots with the skin in the rice washing water, add a seedless red pepper, cook it in a warm heat, then turn off the heat, let it cool naturally, then take out and rinse with water, the astringency will be gone.
✵Notes for eating bamboo shoots:
Although bamboo shoots are delicious, they should be taken away from the weather to prevent them from hardening and hardening. Processing as far as possible do not use a knife to cut, in the case of iron, bamboo shoots tend to harden; when storing cannot peel the shell, can lose its delicate fragrance charm otherwise.
However, it is important to be careful when eating spring bamboo shoots. It is easy to be allergic in spring. For those who are prone to ingestion allergy, the bamboo shoots are also easy to cause hives. Therefore, children eat bamboo shoots in moderation, and the elderly must eat bamboo shoots slowly. In order to prevent the occurrence of allergies, to eat bamboo shoots should be a small number of taste points, if there is a reaction, immediately stop. If stir-fry bamboo shoots with sliced or diced bamboo shoots, blanch the bamboo shoots with boiling water for 5 ~ 10 minutes before stir-frying with other food. In this way, the majority of oxalic acid can be decomposed at high temperature to reduce the disadvantages, but also make dishes without astringent feeling, taste more delicious. At the same time, try not to eat bamboo shoots with sea fish, to avoid skin diseases.
✵Eat bamboo shoots in winter:
Winter dry weather, resulting in no appetite, will also taste fidgety, then how to do? Try eating some winter bamboo shoots. Winter bamboo shoots have the effect of nourishing Yin and cooling blood, and moistening intestines, clearing heat and resolving phlegm, quenching thirst and eliminating irritability, clearing heat and benefiting Qi, dividing cool stomach and eliminating food, and also appetizing and invigorating spleen.
Winter is coming, and winter bamboo shoots are fresh season. According to nutrition experts, every 1 to 2 months is a good time to eat bamboo shoots, coupled with the Spring Festival is coming, again is a gourmet meal, eat some winter bamboo shoot right now, not only can eat food in the oil by adsorption, reduce gastrointestinal mucosa of fat absorption and savings, so as to reduce weight, also can effectively reduce disease associated with high fat.
Although eating winter bamboo shoots is generally beneficial to health, a few people are not suitable for eating winter bamboo shoots. There is insoluble oxalic acid in winter bamboo shoots, which can easily combine with calcium to form calcium oxalate, so patients with urinary tract stones, kidney stones and gallstones should not eat more. Winter bamboo shoots contain a large number of coarse fiber is not easily digestible, so the elderly and infirm, dyspepsia should eat more; winter bamboo shoots also contain a variety of amino acids, peptides, and other allergenic substances, so allergic people should eat less winter bamboo shoots.
✵Tips: before eating winter bamboo shoots, boil them for 5 to 10 minutes with light brine, and then cook them with other vegetables. In this way, most of the oxalic acid has been decomposed at high temperature, which can not only prevent the adverse reactions caused by eating winter bamboo shoots, but also make them taste fresher.
✵Who can't eat bamboo shoots:
Bamboo shoots contain oxalic acid and cold in nature, so patients with a urinary tract problem and gallstones, as well as those with spleen deficiency and intestinal slip should be careful. Bamboo shoots contain more crude fiber, easy to accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, but also for gastric selection, duodenal ulcer, gastric bleeding patients are extremely adverse, for chronic gastroenteritis is not easy to recover.
Do not eat bamboo shoots too much, eating too much will easily induce asthma and other chronic bronchitis, allergic rhinitis, dermatitis and other diseases. Children should eat some bamboo shoots, but not bamboo shoots. The old man must eat bamboo shoots slowly.
Bamboo shoot, also known as bamboo shoot, bamboo bud, it is the seedlings of various kinds of bamboo, such as mao bamboo(giant hairy sheath edible bamboo, Phyllostachys pubescen), it is edible, mainly growing in China's Yangtze river area and other provinces.
Bamboo shoot, that is, the tender stem of bamboo, tender fragrance, delicious taste, has always been known as "the first plant in vegetables." Bamboo shoot is low sugar low-fat high fiber food, it contains more crude fiber, promote intestinal peristalsis, help digestion, relieve constipation, so also known as "scraping fat vegetable", is a kind of effective weight loss health care vegetables. The taste of bamboo shoots is sweet and cool, with the function of "benefit none openings, smooth blood vessels, transform phlegm and saliva, relieve digestion." (Gang Mu Shi Yi, or Supplements of Compendium of Materia Medica). Often eat it can clear heat and dissolve phlegm, benefit diaphragm Qi, promote acne broke out. Can treat dropsy, acute nephritis, diabetes, adverse bowel movements, and other diseases.
Bamboo shoots have been regarded as a "treasure in Chinese cuisine" since ancient times. In terms of nutrition, in the past, many people thought that although bamboo shoots taste delicious, there is no nutrition, some even think that "eat a meal bamboo shoots to scrape three days of oil." This perception is inaccurate. In fact, bamboo shoots are rich in protein, amino acid, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamin B1, B2, and C. Every 100g of fresh bamboo shoots contains 9.79g of dry matter, 3.28g of protein, 4.47g of carbohydrates, 0.9g of cellulose, 0.13g of fat, 22mg of calcium, 56mg of phosphorus and 0.1mg of iron. Moreover, the protein of bamboo shoots is superior. The essential lysine, tryptophan, threonine, and phenylalanine, as well as glutamate, which plays an important effect in protein metabolism and cystine, which plays a role in maintaining protein configuration, are all contained to some extent and are excellent health care vegetables.
✵1. Low calorie: what many people don't realize is that bamboo shoots are low in calories. 100 grams of bamboo shoots only have 27 calories. Therefore, it is a good choice for dieters.
Bamboo shoots are known as "vegetarian first", not only is a vegetable but also medicine. According to traditional Chinese medicine records, the taste of winter bamboo shoots is sweet and cold, and it has the functions of "enriching seven orifices, smooth blood vessels, reducing phlegm and saliva, and eliminating food and bloating." Modern medicine thinks the bamboo shoot has such effect, so eats a bamboo shoot, has the effect of losing weight. It is an effective diuretic, suitable for edema, ascites, beriberi, acute nephritis edema, wheezing cough, diabetes, thirst relieving, dysphoria, and so on. Health experts believe that people in bamboo forests live longer and rarely suffer from high blood pressure, which is related to eating bamboo shoots.
✵3. Open diaphragm to eliminate phlegm: Bamboo shoots are characterized by low sugar and fat, rich in plant fiber, which can reduce excess fat in the body, eliminate phlegm and remove stasis, treat hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia, and play a certain role in preventing gastrointestinal cancer and breast cancer.
✵(I).Food guide:
✵Notes for eating bamboo shoots:
