The Surprising Health Benefits of Bamboo

By Bamboo Grove on October 28, 2021

According to a recently released article from the health professionals who put together the popular website WebMD.com, more and more citizens in the western hemisphere are realizing the incredible health advantages of incorporating bamboo into their everyday diets.

Origins

For hundreds of years, the residents of multiple Asian countries, including China, India, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand, have been eating bamboo shoots as a part of their daily vegetable intake. Packed with multiple vitamins and minerals, such as thiamine, niacin, vitamin A, vitamin B6, and vitamin E, the nutritional benefits of bamboo have been known to reduce bad cholesterol levels and lower the risk of heart disease.

How To Eat Bamboo

If you’re a novice in the kitchen or are possibly unfamiliar with how to prepare bamboo, the one very important thing to be aware of is that raw bamboo contains toxins that are poisonous for human consumption. Now, that simple factor may make you shy away from your stove, but it shouldn’t. There are many safe methods and techniques available on the internet that can assist you in the cooking process. One particularly common and easy way to produce an edible product is to break down the bamboo and boil them in salted water for no less than 20 minutes. Once the shoots have softened, you can begin to add them to your favorite meals. Some of the most popular bamboo dinners include:

• Appetizers like shrimp and pork dumplings, hot & sour slaw, or lumpia rolls
• Stir frys such as mu shu chicken and beef & broccoli
• Fish dinners including shrimp egg-foo young and shabu-shabu
• Main courses such as Thai vegetable curry, hotpots, and vegetarian bibimbap
• ..and so many more delicious and delectable dishes.

The trick with adding the bountiful benefits of bamboo into your diet is that you should start off small and gradually work your way up, perhaps by ordering an item from your local Chinese or Japanese restaurant. That way, you’ll understand the flavor profiles of bamboo and how it works with other vegetables and proteins.

Here at Bamboo Grove, it is our relentless mission to educate that world’s population about the eco-friendly benefits of bamboo, regardless of how you choose to use it in your everyday life. Whether you’re eating it or decorating with it, the primary point to focus on is that we should all be doing whatever we can to combat climate change and bamboo is just another helpful tool in our environmentally-safe arsenal.