You can eat it normally, because you bought winter bamboo shoots, which will have white powder when cut. It can be eaten after washing. Winter bamboo shoots are bamboo shoots developed from the lateral buds of underground stems (bamboo whips) of Phyllostachys pubescens around beginning of autumn.

The white spots in bamboo shoots are mainly the crystallization of tyrosine, which is one of the most abundant amino acids in bamboo shoots, and it is non-toxic. The reason for its formation is that tyrosine will overflow from bamboo shoots during the boiling process of bamboo shoots, and then it will crystallize again after cooling, forming white spots.

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Bamboo shoots can't be eaten raw. When cooked alone, they taste bitter and bad, but frying bamboo shoots with meat is particularly delicious. In addition, you can also put bamboo shoots and skins together in rice washing water, add a seeded red pepper, boil it with low fire, turn off the flame, let it cool naturally, then take it out and rinse it with water, and the astringency will be gone.

Bamboo shoots are sweet and slightly cold, which can clear away heat and eliminate phlegm, detoxify and induce diuresis, and can be used to make bamboo shoot juice drinks. The leftovers of bamboo shoots have high nutritional value, and the juice can be processed into drinks by crushing and juicing.

The composition of bamboo shoot boiling liquid is similar to that of fresh bamboo shoot juice, and it can be used as raw material for bamboo shoot juice beverage production, which opens up a new way for bamboo shoot cannery to turn waste into treasure and comprehensive utilization. Therefore, the research and development of bamboo shoot juice beverage greatly improved the comprehensive utilization rate of bamboo shoots.

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