Bright white and bamboo shoots are not the same thing.

1. Jiaobai

Jiaobai is another name for wild rice. It is a perennial shallow-water herb of the family Poaceae and wild rice with creeping rhizomes. The stalks are tall and upright, 1-2 meters high. The ligule is membranous, about 1.5 cm long, with a pointed tip; the leaves are flat and wide, 50-90 cm long and 15-30 mm wide. Panicles are 30-50 cm long, with most branches rising in clusters and developing in fruiting stage. The caryopse is cylindrical, about 12 mm long, and the embryo is small, 1/8 of the fruit body.

Jiaobai is native to China and Southeast Asia and is a relatively common aquatic vegetable. Distributed in temperate Asia, Japan, Russia and Europe. The whole grass is excellent feed and a wintering place for fish. It is also a pioneer plant in embankment and land creation.

2. Bamboo shoots

Bamboo shoots are the young shoots of bamboo, also called bamboo shoots. Bamboo is a perennial evergreen grass plant, and its edible parts are young, tender, short and strong buds or whips. Bamboo is native to China and has many types, strong adaptability and wide distribution.

Bamboo shoots have been regarded as "treasures in dishes" in China since ancient times. Bamboo shoots are a traditional Chinese delicacy. They are fragrant and crispy and have a long history of consumption and cultivation. In the Book of Songs, there are poems such as "Add beans to make bamboo shoots and fish glutinous rice" and "Qi Lai Yi He, only bamboo shoots and cattails" indicate that people have been eating bamboo shoots for 2,500 to 3,000 years.

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The main value of Jiaobai

1. Economic value

The economic value of wild rice is large, and the stem base and tender stems are After being parasitized by fungi, they become thick, fat and tender, similar to bamboo shoots, and are called wild bamboo shoots (wild rice shoots). They are delicious vegetables. The caryopsis is called wild rice and is eaten as rice and has nutritional and health value. The whole grass is excellent feed and a wintering place for fish. It is also a pioneer plant in embankment and land creation.

2. Nutritional value

Mineral content per 100.0 grams of wild rice: potassium 209 mg, phosphorus 36 mg, sodium 5.8 mg, calcium 4 mg, manganese 0.49 mg, selenium 0.45 μg, Iron 0.4 mg, zinc 0.33 mg, copper 0.06 mg, magnesium 8 mg.

Vitamin content per 100.0 grams of wild rice: 30 micrograms of carotene, 5 micrograms of vitamin A, 5 milligrams of vitamin C, 1.2 grams of protein, 0.99 mg of vitamin E, 20.03 mg of vitamin B, and 10.02 mg of vitamin B.

Every 100.0 grams of wild rice contains 5.9 grams of carbohydrates, 1.9 grams of dietary fiber, 0.5 mg of niacin, and 0.2 grams of fat.

Wild rice is rich in nutrients. It not only contains sugar, but also is organic. Nitrogen, moisture, fat, protein, fiber, ash powder, and 17 kinds of amino acids such as lysine, among which threonine, methionine, phenylalanine, lysine, etc. are essential amino acids for the human body.

3. Medicinal value

Sweet, slightly cold. Dispelling heat, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, diuresis, dehumidification, and tonic. Indications: Cure abdominal pain caused by heat-wetness, persistent heat in the mid-heat, polydipsia, difficulty in defecation, alcoholism, and lack of breast milk.

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