Bamboo Uses

Bamboo is a large and rapidly renewable resource. Especially in Asia, he has great ecological, economic and cultural importance for some 1.5 billion people make bamboo and its many applications a livelihood. The giant woody grass, has for centuries been a regional supplier of building materials and fuel materials. The spectrum of applications ranges from use as food for the use as building material for furniture and house construction, the production of textiles and biomaterials through the use of plant extracts (bamboo milk) in the manufacture of cosmetics and toiletries. Also energetically bamboo is used for example in the form of pellets, bamboo or bamboo charcoal made from bamboo.

Food
The use as a food concerns in particular the young shoots of bamboo, which are eaten as a vegetable or pickled in vinegar. In particular, the genera Bambusa, Dendrocalamus, and Phyllostachys are suitable for consumption. Freshly harvested bamboo shoots a very solid, light yellow flesh with small air chambers in the middle of the shoots have. They are obtained by being excavated from the soil and with several very strong, hairy and dark brown leaves surrounding, which are removed before cooking. Bamboo shoots are imported mainly from Asia and Latin America. In Europe, they are grown only in Italy. You will also be pre-cooked and packaged for sale.

The shoots contain a toxin (Blausäureglykosid), which must be neutralized by cooking. Because they contain many types of bamboo also bitter, they should also be neutralized by cooking. In Japan, bamboo shoots are cooked, for example, together with the flour, which is formed during polishing of rice ("Nuka"), and especially the outer layers of the rice grain contains. It is also possible for this purpose mitzukochen chili peppers. The pickled bamboo shoots are "Achia" or "Atchia called.

Also the haferähnliche grain of the bamboo is edible. Bamboo tea leaves obtained keeps slowly moving into Europe. The tea contains mainly carbohydrates, fiber, proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins. Supposedly it is to help, prevent migraine.

Economic success is the use of fine bamboo powder (or fibers) as additives for food. They are tasteless at a fiber content of over 98%. These bamboo products offer both nutritional (eg, fiber enrichment, calorie reduction) and the technological (eg, improve texture, water holding) the benefits of dietary fiber concentrates, and therefore versatile use in product development. Although their use in Germany is not allowed, especially in the U.S. and Canada and in Asia, but they are for different foods and supplements used, such as fruit juices and spices in, tablets, baked goods and sauces.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambus
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