To distinguish between male and female water bamboo shoots, you need to judge based on the length of the rhizome. You can refer to the method below to distinguish male and female water bamboo shoots. Female water bamboo shoots are more delicious, more tender and have less fiber:

In addition to the difference in this picture, when choosing wild rice, you should not choose ones with smooth skin, but ones with bumpy skin, which are tender.

Wild rice is a kind of grass, a perennial herbaceous plant. Wild rice can be divided into double-season wild rice and single-season wild rice. Double-season wild rice (double-ripe wild rice) has higher yield and better quality.

The ancients called wild rice "wild rice". Before the Tang Dynasty, wild rice was cultivated as a food crop. Its seeds are called wild rice or wild rice, and it is one of the "six grains" (steamed rice, millet, millet, beam, wheat and wild rice). Later, people discovered that some wild rice plants did not ear due to infection with smut fungus, and the plants showed no signs of disease. The stems continued to expand and gradually formed spindle-shaped fleshy stems. This is the wild rice root that is eaten today.

In this way, people use smut fungus to prevent wild rice from flowering and bearing fruit, and propagate this diseased and deformed plant as a vegetable. Can be used as medicine.

Only China and Vietnam cultivate wild rice as a vegetable in the world.

Wild rice is known as one of the three good things in Xintaibaizhuangzi, Shandong Province (the three good things are wild rice, spring buds, and wild duck eggs) and has been passed down to this day since ancient times. It mostly grows in the Yangtze River and lake areas and is suitable for growing in fresh water.