Contents:
- Medical Video: Lucky Bamboo for money and good luck. Where to keep? How to buy? How to keep? Everything!
- Processing of bamboo shoots for young bamboo shoots to be cooked into vegetables
- What are the benefits of bamboo shoots for health?
- 1. The potassium content in bamboo shoots reduces the risk of stroke
- 2. The fiber content in bamboo shoots prevents various diseases
Medical Video: Lucky Bamboo for money and good luck. Where to keep? How to buy? How to keep? Everything!
Maybe the name of bamboo shoots which are usually consumed as vegetables is only known by a handful of people. The delicious taste of bamboo shoots can make your appetite increase. Moreover, if vegetable shoots are added spicy chili. Wow, certainly feels solid and really of course. However, besides its deliciousness, bamboo shoots have many ingredients that are beneficial for your health. What are the benefits of bamboo shoots for health? Find out in this article.
Processing of bamboo shoots for young bamboo shoots to be cooked into vegetables
Bamboo shoots in English are known as bamboo shoot this is a young bamboo shoot. Processing bamboo shoots in the language of Javanese is called "bung", usually by removing the petals, sliced and processed by boiling or steaming.
The benefits of bamboo shoots for cooking ingredients have actually been done since ancient times. Bamboo shoots are usually harvested throughout the year. Harvesting itself occurs during the rainy season between December and February. Bamboo shoots will be harvested when the height reaches 20 cm above the ground and the diameter is around 7 cm.
Harvesting bamboo shoots should not be late because if it is too late, for example 2-4 months, then bamboo shoots will soon become a bamboo tree which of course is not good anymore to eat.
What are the benefits of bamboo shoots for health?
1. The potassium content in bamboo shoots reduces the risk of stroke
In bamboo shoots there are many compounds ranging from water (at most up to 91%), thiamin, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin A, vitamin C, potassium, phosphorus, iron, and others.
The content of protein, carbohydrates and fat is not much different when compared to other vegetables. Likewise, the potassium content is quite high at 533 mg per 10 grams.
Foods that are rich in potassium, at least 400 mg, helps in controlling blood pressure. Controlled blood pressure will certainlyreduce the risk of stroke. In addition, people who suffer from a lack of potassium, usually suffer from muscle softening. So, you need to meet your daily potassium needs, for example, by taking bamboo shoots.
2. The fiber content in bamboo shoots prevents various diseases
In addition to potassium, bamboo shoots are also very rich in dietary fiber as much as 2.56 percent. The fiber content itself is higher compared to other tropical vegetables such as cucumber (0.61%), mustard greens (1.01%), soybeans (1.27%), pecay (1.58%), and others.
Indeed, lack of fiber in the human body will not cause specific symptoms, unlike the lack of other substances. However, still its adequacy must always be fulfilled to improve the body's metabolic performance.
In fact, in several studies conducted, it has been found that lack of fiber can actually cause various diseases. Lack of fiber can cause blood vessel blockage or atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, hypercholesterolemia, colon cancer (large intestine), and others.
Food fiber is a compound in the form of complex carbohydrates and is usually found in many cell walls of food plants, including bamboo shoots. Food fiber is indeed not digested and absorbed by the digestive tract, but its function is very important to maintain the level of human health to prevent attacks of various types of diseases and is an important component in nutritional therapy.
What about the fiber consumption of the Indonesian population? Only about 10.5 grams per day. Obviously it is still lacking because the ideal requirement that must be fulfilled is as much as 30 grams of fiber per day. You can make bamboo shoots as a solution to meet fiber adequacy every day.
