The fresh ones are white, and there are many layers of hard shells with Mao Mao outside, which have the fragrance of bamboo. Dried bamboo shoots are generally yellow-brown and hard, and they need to be made with water. There is also a kind called Yulan tablets, which is fresh and white with a little yellowish.

protein of Phyllostachys pubescens is superior. Lysine, tryptophan, threonine, phenylalanine, glutamic acid which plays an important role in the metabolism of protein and cystine which can maintain the configuration of protein have certain contents, so it is an excellent health-care vegetable.