Canned bamboo

For our country, bamboo is an exotic product, but in Asia it has been eaten since ancient times. By the way, it is customary to eat shoots and bamboo leaves - the latter are usually used dried when preparing soups and fresh ones - meat dishes as a substrate.

Bamboo shoots are young sprouts of a huge plant that are harvested before they exceed 30 centimeters in length. This outlandish product - the delicate and crispy shoots of bamboo taste somewhat like corn. By the way, in culinary affairs, this delicacy is used fresh, dried or canned. Due to the fact that this foreigner is extremely rare in fresh form on the shelves of domestic stores, it is less problematic to buy bamboo canned in a tin jar or in vacuum packaging.

The crisp, slightly sweet flesh of canned bamboo is great for adding to a variety of soups, salads, fried and stewed dishes. Often, pork is fried with shoots of canned bamboo, but vegetable sides with them are also not uncommon.

If you put them out with cabbage or mushrooms, you get a combination that you will remember for a long time. If you are lucky to buy fresh bamboo shoots in large quantities, you can prepare them for future use. Canned bamboo - very convenient to use, only during heat treatment should not boil them for too long, otherwise the taste will deteriorate and the useful substances of this product will be significantly reduced. To preserve the crisp texture of canned bamboo, add it to the dish last.

By the way, vegetarians have long appreciated the useful properties of both fresh and canned bamboo - they consume this product as a side dish, adding a small amount of vegetable oil, soy sauce or pepper to the shoots. But for the rest of the people, canned bamboo is also a very valuable and healthy product, which is recommended to be eaten as often as possible.

The useful properties of bamboo preserved for the human body are quite obvious, because it is a natural source of potassium that maintains normal blood pressure and heartbeat. At the same time, the introduction of canned bamboo into the diet will provide you with phosphorus, riboflavin, zinc, thiamine, iron and niacin.

Fiber, which is also found in canned bamboo, has the ability to control dangerous cholesterol levels while playing an important preventive role in the fight against rectal cancer. It has been found that due to the insignificant fat content, the beneficial properties of canned bamboo are to improve the digestive processes and skin condition - it is not surprising why this product is unusually popular among those seeking to lose weight.