Eat bamboo shoots properly to avoid poisoning

Bamboo shoots are a favorite dish of many people, but you need to prepare them carefully to not cause health risks.

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Bamboo shoots are a favorite food of the Vietnamese people in both rural and urban areas, especially during meal and Tet holidays. However, improper use of bamboo shoots is extremely dangerous, affecting health and can be fatal.

Cyanide is an Acid-based (CN) compound whose compounds include salts or acids, which have very toxic properties, and a fatal dose of 1 mg / kg body weight. In fresh bamboo shoot, the content of cyanide is very high, about 230mg / kg of bamboo shoots. When people eat bamboo shoots containing a lot of cyanide, under the action of digestive enzymes, cyanide immediately turns into cyanhydric acid (HCN), which is an extremely toxic substance to the body and causes poisoning.

Each pound of bamboo shoots has about 230mg of cyanide, which can cause immediate death for two children over one year old. When boiled for about 12 hours, the cyanide content is still about 160mg in each pound. But if boiled and soaked in water for a long time, when the bamboo has turned yellow and sour, the Cyanide content is less than 9mg per kilogram. To avoid poisoning when eating bamboo shoots, it is best to boil bamboo shoots thoroughly, when boiling water many times, soak enough time before using it.

Bamboo shoots must be boiled several times to reduce the poison

Expression of fresh bamboo poisoning

Depending on the amount of cyanide present in bamboo shoots, people have different severe and mild toxicity. Symptoms usually appear after eating bamboo shoots for 5 - 30 minutes.Mild cases , manifestations of fear, anxiety, dizziness, headache, disturbance of consciousness, nausea, vomiting, irritation of the respiratory mucosa .

Severe cases show seizures, stiffness, stiffness, dilated pupils, respiratory failure, cyanosis, coma. More severe will stop breathing, rapid and irregular heartbeat, atrioventricular dysfunction, is the main cause of death after a few minutes if not timely emergency.

Handling bamboo poisoning

When people who eat a lot of bamboo shoots appear on these signs, they need to immediately help the vomit victim, can induce vomiting by drinking a full amount of water and then throat throat, swab into the throat to induce vomiting. Do artificial respiration if breathing stops, take the victim immediately to the nearest medical center for timely management.

How to decontaminate bamboo shoots

To ensure safety when using fresh bamboo shoots, we can apply the following detoxification methods:

Method 1:

Peel off the sheaths (bamboo sheath), wash away the sandy soil, depending on the type of poisonous bamboo shoots that are more or less, regular or bitter bamboo shoots that have different treatments. Can be cut into thin slices or shredded into fibers to soak into clean water overnight to reduce poison and rinse before processing into dishes.

Method 2:

Freshly picked bamboo shoots are peeled, put into a pot of boiled water. Boil and boil again 2-3 times. Then bring out soaking in rice water for 2 days is edible (change rice water regularly, 2 times / day). Or boil several times through boiling water and rinse with clean water. When soft bamboo shoots mean, the bitterness also goes away, then the food is prepared.

Method 3:

Plucked by peeling, cut into small slices, add more to hold the leafy vegetables and put them into a boiled pot once. When the bamboo shoots are ripe, lift down the hot water, then pour cold water into it, remove the leafy vegetables and rinse it with cold water again to prepare the food.

Shoots after decontamination can be processed into a lot of delicious dishes.

Method 4:

Fresh bamboo shoots are put in the whole shell, then put into the pot. Add some chilli seeds that have been removed, add rice water to the bottom of the bamboo shoot. Heat the fire, when trying to see soft bamboo shoots, turn off the heat. Wait for the bamboo shoots to cool, remove and peel, then rinse several times with clean water. Shoots will no longer have a bitter taste, you can prepare dishes.

Method 5:

With poisonous bamboo shoots, bitter bamboo should be soaked with clear lime water; boil a few turns to remove the first water until it is clear and then process. During boiling, cooking should open the poison to evaporate.

Method 6:

Before drying or drying dried bamboo shoots, soak them in salt water, when using them to process them into dishes, they should be boiled in hot or boiled water as much as possible. Manganese salt is also a measure to reduce the toxicity of bamboo shoots.

Note: Drinking fresh bamboo shoots for fever and healing, not cooking bamboo shoots for fear of losing quality, bamboo shoots soaked in vinegar are not enough time to eat. Do not give malaria, malnourished people, body weakness to eat bamboo shoots because of poisonous bamboo shoots to increase disease. Do not abuse eating bamboo shoots and pay attention to carefully processing before eating.