Benefits of Bamboo Shoots Bamboo Shoots is one food that is quite popular in the community. Shoots usually discarded petals, sliced into slices, and then processed by steaming or boiling in water. Bamboo shoots are often known by the name of the bung (Javanese), by rural communities since time immemorial been used as a cooking ingredient.
Bamboo shoots Shoots are young shoots of bamboo plants that appear on the surface of the base clump. Young bamboo shoots are good to eat, so are classified into the vegetables. In English, bamboo shoot bamboo shoot dkenal with the title. Shoots grow dibaigian base of a bamboo grove and are usually filled by glugut (bamboo hair) that itch. Morphology of cone-shaped bamboo shoots, each end glugut have a section like bamboo leaf tip, but the colors are brown.
According to botanical classification, bamboo plants including doneae Monocotyle class, order Graminales, subfamily Dendrocalamae, Dendrocallamus genus, species Dendrocallamus asper bamboo shoots can be harvested throughout the year. Bamboo shoot harvest occurs during the rainy season, between December-February. Usually harvested when shoots had reached 20 cm height from ground level, with a trunk diameter of about 7 cm.
If harvested too late, within 2-4 months of mature bamboo shoots are complete. Usually taken is bamboo shoot bamboo shoots that have never grown adult. Not all bamboo shoots growing bamboo can live into adulthood. At times when bamboo shoots that have been outstanding for several weeks, stopped growing and eventually die. Rural communities have understood type of bamboo shoots that have never grown up, so that should be harvested when young. However, if no, any bamboo shoots can be taken to vegetables.
To take a shoot of bamboo is not difficult by using a large knife, sickle, or other device, bamboo shoots can be cut at their bases. After that, bamboo shoots glugutnya peeled for disposal. Once clean, bamboo shoots and then cut into small pieces to taste. In the market, bamboo shoots sold in two forms, namely the form of intact and form thin slices.
Types of Bamboo Bamboo widely planted in tropical regions of Asia. This plant can grow in the lowlands to the place where the altitude of 2,000 meters above sea level. Not all types of bamboo shoots are good to eat. Some types of bamboo have a bitter bamboo shoots Bamboo Shoots usually made dishes, a choice of bamboo shoots.
Not all bamboo shoots can be processed into food. Bamboo species lear (ping lear in Javanese) is one of janis bamboo that can not be processed into food, it tastes bitter. Types of bamboo shoots that taste delicious is yellow bamboo shoots, Rampal / flute, ori, and Ater. Shoots of bamboo betung have the most delicious flavor. Betung bamboo shoots in red brown and corms (calyx end) at the end of the bamboo shoots are purple. Shoots are protected by powerful petals fluffy.
Potassium-rich The main compounds in the crude bamboo shoot is water, which is about 91 percent. In addition, bamboo shoots contain protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin C, as well as other minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, and potassium. When compared with other vegetables, protein, fat, and carbohydrates in the shoots, do not differ much.
Shoots have a high potassium content. Levels of potassium per 100 grams of bamboo shoots is 533 mg. Foods that are full of potassium, which is at least 400 mg, may reduce the risk of stroke. Role of potassium similar to sodium, which together with chloride, helps maintain osmotic pressure and acid base balance. Potassium maintain osmotic pressure in intracellular fluid, and partly bound to protein. Potassium also helps to activate the enzyme reaction. Symptoms of potassium deficiency is usually a softening of muscle.
Rich Fiber Fiber content of food in the bamboo shoots are also quite good. Food fiber content in shoots was 2.56 percent, higher than any other tropical vegetable species, such as soybean sprouts (1.27 percent), pecay (1.58 percent), cucumber (0.61 percent), and mustard greens (1, 01 percent). Dietary fiber (dietary fiber) was long enough dabaikan as an important factor in human nutrition because it does not produce energy. In addition, the lack of fiber menimbufkan no specific symptoms, as was the case on the lack of certain nutrients.
Lately, through epidemiological studies have demonstrated the physiological role of food fiber on the gut. Lack of fiber can cause diseases of Western-style society, such as aterosklorosis (blocked arteries), coronary, diabetes mellitus (diabetes), hypercholesterolemia (excess cholesterol), hypertension, hyperlipidemia (excess fat), and cancer of the colon (large intestine).
Dietary fiber is a form of complex carbohydrate compound that many artifacts on food plant cell walls. Dietary fiber can not be digested and absorbed by the human digestive tract, but it has functions that are skelter for health maintenance, disease prevention, and as an important component of nutrition therapy. Average consumption of food fiber Indonesia's population is 10.5 grams per day. This figure shows that the population of Indonesia is only about a third fiber needs and the needs of the ideal of 30 grams per day.
So Pickles, pickles, flour, vinegar, and Chip Although not yet have scientific proof most people believe that bamboo shoots have very useful properties for the body. In traditional medicine, yellow bamboo shoots are believed to be used to treat liver cirrhosis. Bamboo shoots has also been used to treat the disease coughs up phlegm and fever.
Bamboo shoots can be eaten as a vegetable alone or used as material mixing vegetables in other dishes. Many exotic cuisine prepared from bamboo shoots, such as: lumpia Semarang, Probolinggo oseng-oseng distinctive, diamond Bojonegoro vegetable and coconut curry. Bamboo shoots are also often made into pickles or pickle made, which is very nice to be a snack.
Currently, bamboo shoots can already be processed for a variety of preserved foods. With advances in technology, bamboo shoots can be processed into flour has shoots that have a high starch content. This type of good flour to make cakes. Bamboo shoots can also be processed into vinegar, which is excellent for use as vinegar meal. Products processed bamboo shoots that have bright prospects are: bamboo shoot chips that taste and texture are not lost with potato chips and frozen bamboo shoots as a material for vegetable