Eat spring bamboo shoots in the body of garbage

Health newspaper

Professor of Nutrition, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University

      Bamboo shoots are all year round, but only spring shoots, winter bamboo shoots taste the best. Spring shoots yield high, cheap, it is not only fleshy crisp, fragrant pure sweet, and high nutritional value. It contains the protein, at least 16 to 18 different amino acids, of which lysine, tryptophan, threonine, alanine and so are essential for the human body.

      Bamboo shoots is the body of garbage "scavenger." Bamboo shoots Gan Han Tong Lee, which contains dietary fiber can increase the storage of intestinal moisture, promote gastrointestinal motility, reduce intestinal pressure, reduce fecal viscosity, so that the stool can be softly discharged, is conducive to the treatment of constipation, prevention of colorectal cancer.

      Bamboo shoots contain a white nitrogenous substance that constitutes the unique fragrance of bamboo shoots. It has appetizers, promote digestion, enhance the role of appetite can be used to treat indigestion.

      Bamboo shoots low sugar, low fat, rich in dietary fiber, can reduce the body of excess fat, phlegm and stasis, high blood pressure, high blood lipids, high blood sugar treatment beneficial, and gastrointestinal cancer and breast cancer have a certain preventive effect.

      It is noteworthy that, because the bamboo shoots contain more oxalic acid, will affect the body's absorption of calcium, therefore, is in the long body stage children should not eat; urinary tract stones are also unfit for human consumption; Should avoid eating.

      Australian food experts said that fresh bamboo shoots before eating if handled properly, will make people exposed to toxic substances hydrogen cyanide. Therefore, when dealing with bamboo shoots can be cut into two halves of bamboo shoots, stripped of all the leaves, remove the roots of rough fibers, and then cut into thin slices of bamboo shoots, boiled in salt water 8 to 10 minutes. In this way, not only can remove most of the oxalate and astringency, but also to avoid hydrogen cyanide poisoning.