The main food that bamboo rats eat is bamboo. Bamboo rats can also eat juicy feeds such as carrots, sweet potatoes, bamboo shoots, and melon rinds, as well as refined materials such as corn, wheat bran, and dried steamed bread. In addition, such as duck foot wood, mango branches, banyan branches, thatch roots, bamboo poles, bamboo roots, watermelon rinds, corn stalks, corn buds, corn cobs, sugar cane heads, sugar cane stems, sugar cane tails, carrots, water willows, etc. They are all foods that bamboo rats prefer to eat and have extremely high nutritional value.

The bamboo rat is an animal belonging to the genus Bamboo Rat in the family Bamboo Rat. It is named after eating bamboo. It mainly feeds on bamboo, miscanthus, plant stems, etc. Wild bamboo rats are very rare. There are a total of 3 genera and 6 species in the world: 2 species of African Bamboo Rats (endemic to East Africa), 3 species of Bamboo Rats, 1 species of Bamboo Rats, and 1 genus and 3 species in China. .

Bamboo rats mainly inhabit tropical and subtropical forests, shrubs and bamboo forests in eastern Africa and southern Asia. Bamboo rats have been bred on a large scale in China and have become one of the most economically beneficial breeding industries. Wild bamboo rats may carry viruses and are not edible. Bamboo rats and their products circulating on the market are all from artificial breeding. White bamboo rats, large bamboo rats, Chinese bamboo rats, and small bamboo rats are all "three protected animals" in the country, and it is illegal to catch them without permission.