Bamboo Shoots Rich in fiber and Antidote Stroke

In addition to delicious made soup, bamboo shoots from young bamboo shoots, rich in dietary fiber and potassium. The content is made of bamboo shoots can ward off stroke.

"Bamboo really eat?" Asked a friend from Australia when he saw a group of people were busy eating bamboo shoots in one of Sundanese restaurants. "Try it, you will know ecstasy!" Said one of us to the foreign friends. Once tested, the Caucasian teryata it was like.

Bamboo shoots is one food that is quite popular in the community. Bamboo shoots are usually discarded petals, diris-sliced, then processed by steaming or boiling. Bamboo shoots are commonly known as the bung (Javanese), by rural communities since time immemorial been used as a cooking ingredient.

Bamboo shoots are young shoots of bamboo plants that appear on the bottom surface of the clump.

Young bamboo shoots are good to eat, so it is classified into the vegetables. In English, bamboo shoot bamboo shoot dkenal with the title.

Dibaigian base of the shoots grow bamboo grove and is usually filled by glugut (bamboo hair) which gatal.Morfologi conical bamboo shoots, each end of glugut have sections such as bamboo leaf tip, but the color is brown. According to botanical classification, bamboo plant belongs to the class

Monocotyle doneae, order Graminales, subfamily Dendrocalamae, Dendrocalamus genus, species Dendrocalamus asper Harvesting bamboo shoots can be done throughout the year. Bamboo shoot harvest occurs during the rainy season, ie between the months of December to February. Usually harvested when shoots had reached 20 cm height from ground level, with a trunk diameter of about 7 cm.

If harvested late, in 2-4 months bamboo shoots have become complete. Usually taken is the bamboo shoot bamboo shoots that could not grow up. Not all bamboo shoots growing bamboo can live into adulthood. At times when the bamboo shoots that have aged a few weeks, stop growing and eventually die.

Rural communities have understood that kind of shoots could not grow up, so it must be harvested when young. However, if no, any shoots that can be taken for vegetables.

To take a clump of bamboo shoots is not difficult By using a large knife, sickle, or other device, bamboo shoots can be cut at the base. After that, bamboo shoots glugutnya peeled for disposal.

After a dab to clean, kemuclian bamboo shoots cut into small pieces to taste. In the market, bamboo shoots are sold in two benhak, the whole shape and form of thin slices.

Types of Bamboo

Bamboo is widely planted in tropical regions of Asia. This plant can grow in the lowlands to the spot with an altitude of 2,000 meters above sea level.

Not all types of bamboo have a delicious edible bamboo shoots. Some species of bamboo have a bitter bamboo shoots Bamboo shoots are commonly made dishes, a selection of bamboo shoots.

Not all bamboo shoots can be processed into food. Bamboo Janis smear (in Javanese language lear ping) is one of Janis bamboo that can not be processed into food, it tastes bitter. This type of bamboo shoots that have a delicious flavor is yellow bamboo shoots, Rampal / flute, ori, and Ater.

Shoots of bamboo Betung have the most delicious flavor. Betung bamboo shoots and red brown Earring (eyelid tip) at the end of the bamboo shoots are purple. Bamboo shoots are protected by the petals of a fluffy solid.

Potassium-rich

The main compounds in the raw bamboo shoots is water, which is about 91 percent. In addition, bamboo shoots contain protein, carbohydrates, fat, 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 on bamboo shoots, do not differ much.

Bamboo shoots have a high potassium content. Levels of potassium per 100 grams of bamboo shoots is 533 mg. KaTium laden foods, ie at least 400 mg, may reduce the risk of stroke.

The role of potassium is 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, such as pyruvate kinase that can produce pyruvic acid in carbohydrate metabolism symptoms of potassium deficiency is usually a softening of the muscle.

Rich in Fiber

The fiber content of food in the bamboo shoots are also good enough fiber content of food on a bamboo shoot is 2.56 percent, higher than any other tropical vegetable species, such as soy bean sprouts (1.27 percent), pecay (1.58 percent), cucumbers (0.61 percent), and mustard (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 dietary fiber against colon. Lack of fiber can cause diseases of Western-style society, such as aterosklorosis (blood vessel blockage), coronary, diabetes mellitus (diabetes), hypercholesterolemia (excess cholesterol), hypertension, hyperlipidemia (excess fat), and cancers of the colon (large intestine).

Dietary fiber is the compound form of complex carbohydrates that many artifacts in the cell walls of food plants. Dietary fiber can not be digested and absorbed by the human digestive tract, but it has a function very skelter for health maintenance, disease prevention, and sebgai important component of nutrition therapy.

The average consumption of dietary fiber population of Indonesia is 10.5 grams per day. This figure shows that the population of Indonesia meets kebuhahan new fiber and about a third as ideal by 30 grams per day.

So Pickles, pickles, flour, vinegar, & Chips

Although not yet have scientific proof most people believe that bamboo shoots have properties that are very beneficial for the body. In traditional medicine, believed the yellow bamboo shoots can be used to treat liver cirrhosis. Bamboo shoots have also been used to treat cough and fever.

In Indonesia Bamboo shoots can be eaten as a vegetable alone or used as ingredients in cooking other vegetables mixer. Many exotic cuisine prepared from bamboo shoots, such as: lumpia semarang, stir, stir the typical regions in Indonesia for example in Probolinggo, soup diamond in Bojonegoro, and guiai coconut milk. Bamboo shoots are also often made into sauerkraut and pickles are made, which is very nice to be a snack.

Today bamboo shoots are a variety of materials can be processed for food preservation. With advances in technology, bamboo shoots can be processed into flour has shoots that have a high starch content. This type of flour for a cake made of materials.

Bamboo shoots can also be processed into vinegar, which is excellent for use as vinegar meal. Other products processed bamboo shoots that have bright prospects is: bamboo shoot chips that taste and texture are not lost with potato chips and frozen bamboo shoots as a material for vegetables.

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