Bamboo Shoot
Bamboo Shoot
Bamboo Shoot
As Food Source
Rationale
• Bamboo is the fastest-growing and the most versatile plant on earth. It
have played an important part in humans daily life its uses is in thousand
different ways because of its longevity, resilience and endurance.
• Bamboo belongs to the family of grasses, specifically in the subfamily
Bambusoideae of the family Poaceae (or graminacceae). Approximately
ther are 1,300 species and varietis covering 25 milion hectares worldwide
(Liese, 2015)
Rationale
• Bamboo also has different parts aside from the leaves it has a the culm or
the stem that has nodes with internodes in between and this nodes give
the bamboo its strength. This culms or stems arise from the buds at the
underground which are called the shoot. Shoots of the bamboo emerge in
the rainy season and expand within a few months and become an adult
culm. (Liese, 2015)
Rationale
• This shoots from the bamboo can be used as a source of food. Locally, in
the Philippines it can be made as a viand paired with rice, the usual
cooking would be sautéing it and adding some spices and soy sauce some
also use this a filling to the famous Filipino dish “Lumpia”.
• Aside from these dishes are very delectable it is also said to be nutritious
because it is rich in fiber and according to Chongtham, Bisht,et al (2011) it
has revealed that bamboo shoots have a number of health benefits:
improving appetite and digestion, weight loss, and curing cardiovascular
diseases and cancer. The shoots are reported to have anticancer,
antibacterial, and antiviral activity.
SIGNIFICANCE
• As the modern world have become more advance people’s choice of food
have also become more on the food that are fast to prepare and easy to
serve like “pick a pick a” foods have become the favorites because of its
convenience such as chips and fries, but this have also become a problem
because most of this foods are considered as one of the deadliest food
according to Hindutan times (2017).
• While on the other hand some people have also become more conscious
of what they are eating and of how they look, the weight they gained.
And since bamboo shoots have weight loss properties because of its fiber
content, the group have decided to unify this idea of getting to eat the
food that we generally love whilst having no guilt of gaining weight or
being healty.
Theories
• As the modern world have become more advance people’s choice of food
have also become more on the food that are fast to prepare and easy to
serve like “pick a pick a” foods have become the favorites because of its
convenience such as chips and fries, but this have also become a problem
because most of this foods are considered as one of the deadliest food
according to Hindutan times (2017).
• While on the other hand some people have also become more conscious
of what they are eating and of how they look, the weight they gained.
And since bamboo shoots have weight loss properties because of its fiber
content, the group have decided to unify this idea of getting to eat the
food that we generally love whilst having no guilt of gaining weight or
being healty.