Bamboo shoots are the young growing parts of young bamboo stalks. They are eaten as a vegetable when they have not fully grown out of the ground and when they have just emerged from the ground and have not yet become woody.

Bamboo shoots are sweet and slightly cold in nature, and have the effect of clearing away heat and eliminating phlegm, facilitating the digestion of the stomach, quenching thirst and benefiting the qi. Bamboo shoots also contain a lot of fiber, not only can promote intestinal peristalsis, to go to the food, anti-constipation, but also obese people to lose weight good food.

Suffering from gastric ulcers, gastric hemorrhage, nephritis, cirrhosis of the liver, intestinal inflammation, urinary tract stones, low calcium, osteoporosis, rickets, it is not advisable to eat more.