24/09/2023
Health Benefits and Nutritional Value of Bamboo Shoot
In the 21st century, bamboo shoot is recognized as a superfood and is used to prepare many food and pharmaceutical products. The utilization of bamboo shoots as food is mainly concentrated in Southeast Asian countries, and it still remains unexploited in other parts of the world (Santosh et al., 2023). Sustainable development, food safety control, and the clarification of their potential health effects are suggested for future consideration (Wang et al., 2020). The juvenile bamboo shoots are delicious as well as rich in nutrient components, mainly proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, and dietary fiber, which exhibit great potential as a food resource.
Nutritional Value of raw Bamboo shoots
Based on USDA, 100g of raw Bamboo shoots contain:
Energy: 27 kcal
Water: 91 g
Protein: 2.6 g
Total dietary Fiber: 2.2 g
Sugars: 3 g
Potassium: 408-5980 mg (highly depends on the bamboo species)
Phosphorus 59 mg
Calcium: 13 mg
Vitamin C: 4 mg
Health Benefits of Bamboo Shoots Consumption
It has a high amount of antioxidants, and polyphenols, is low in fat, and is a good source of health-promoting bioactive compounds such as phytosterols, flavonoids, and phenolic acids. The nutritional and bioactive constituents of bamboo shoots are associated with several health benefits that include decreasing blood pressure, and cholesterol, increasing appetite, having anti-cancerous and anti-diabetic properties, reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, obesity, cancer, and certain gastrointestinal disorders, lowers the level of sugar in the blood, promotes regularity, prevents constipation, antihyperglycemic, immunomodulatory, antiinflammatory, antimicrobial, cardioprotective, and neuroprotective abilities (Chongtham & Bisht, 2020).
Bamboo is known for its therapeutic significance and is an integral part of the traditional medicinal system worldwide, including Ayurveda, Chinese, Indo-Persian, Unani, and Tibetan practises. Almost every part of bamboo, such as rhizomes, roots, culm, culm sheaths, seeds, leaves, sap, and shoots, are used for medicinal purposes for treating injuries, fever, skin infections, bleeding gums joint pains, and many more. Bamboo has been incorporated into many traditional formulas to treat lung, stomach, bone, and skin-related problems, wounds, and poisonous bites. Medical applications of Tabasheer were documented in Indian Ayurveda over 10,000 years ago as a fundamental constituent of Chyawanprash, a health tonic to bestow youth, beauty, and life (Nirmala et al., 2018). The medicinal properties of bamboo shoots were also documented in the book Compendium of Materia Medica of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), which mentioned the benefits of a liquid circulatory system (Yuming & Jiru, 1999). Extracts of leaves and shoots show potential antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, and wound-healing properties (Kalyan et al., 2023). The potential of bamboo shoots is gaining popularity in the food, nutraceutical, cosmeceutical, and pharmaceutical sectors due to their many health-promoting properties.
In the 21st century, bamboo shoot is recognized as a superfood and is used to prepare many food and pharmaceutical products. The utilization of bamboo
