Bamboo shoots

BambusoideaeAlso called bamboo sprouts, bamboo shoot, bamboo and Bambusoideae

Bamboo shoots are eaten as a vegetable and sold fresh, canned, or dried. Cooks boil, simmer, ferment, pickle, or stir-fry them and pair them with pork, dried fish, or coconut milk.

Plant-based

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Vegetables
Part used: Shoot
Family: Poaceae
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 9 in the catalogue
Energy: 27 kcal per 100 g

Photo: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use bamboo shoots

Typical ways to cook or use it

Boil simmer
Ferment
Pickle
Stir fry

Preparing it

Remove the leaves before boiling the shoots.

Goes well with

Shopping

Choosing and storing bamboo shoots

Sold as: Canned, Dried, Fresh

Nutrition

What 100 g of bamboo shoots holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 32%Fat 4%Carbohydrate 64%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of bamboo shoots, raw
Energy	27 kcal · 115 kJ
Protein	2.6 g
Fat	0.3 g
of which saturated	0.07 g
Carbohydrate	5.2 g
of which sugars	3 g
Fibre	2.2 g
Sodium	4 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of bamboo shoots, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	533 mg
Calcium	13 mg
Iron	0.5 mg
Magnesium	3 mg
Zinc	1.1 mg
Vitamin C	4 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)	1 µg
Folate	7 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 169210), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where bamboo shoots is cooked

9 dishes in the catalogue use bamboo shoots. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia9

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 8
Myanmar 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list bamboo shoots among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with bamboo shoots

7 of the 9 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Kuwah Pliëk U
Indonesia
Talabaw
Myanmar
Spicy porridge
Indonesia
Lumpia Semarang
Indonesia
Lema
Indonesia
Lemang
Indonesia
Sayur rebung
Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include bamboo shoots.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: bamboo shoots in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: eggs, fish, milk, molluscs, sulphites, crustaceans.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Alcohol: None
Pork: None

Around the world

What bamboo shoots is called

Names in 61 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Brotes de bambú · Brote de bambú · Brote de bambu · Brotes de bambu
French
pousse de bambou · pousses de bambou
Italian
Germoglio di bambù
Portuguese
Broto de bambu
German
Bambussprossen
Dutch
Bamboescheut · bamboescheuten
Greek
βλαστός μπαμπού
Turkish
Bambu filizi
Russian
бамбуковые побеги · побеги бамбука
Arabic
بتيلة خيزران
Persian
جوانه بامبو
Bangla
বাঁশ কোড়ল

Show all 61 languages

ami
Tefo'
Armenian
Բամբուկի ընձյուղ
Assamese
খৰিচা
Balinese
Embung
Basque
Banbu-kimuak
Bikol
Lambo
Cantonese
筍
Catalan
brot de bambú
cdo
Sūng
Chinese
筍 · 筍子 · 冬笋 · 笋
Czech
bambusový výhonek · výhonek bambusu
Danish
bambusskud
Esperanto
bambuŝosoj
Estonian
Bambusevõrsed
Finnish
bambunverso
Gorontalo
Lombu lo talilo
Guarani
Takuarembo
Hungarian
bambuszrügy
Iloko
rabong
Indonesian
Rebung
Japanese
タケノコ · 筍 · 笋 · 竹の子
Javanese
Bung
Kannada
ಕಳಲೆ
Kazakh
Бамбук өскіндері
Korean
죽순
Latin
Surculi bambusei
Literary Chinese
筍
Lithuanian
Bambuko ūglis
Malay
Rebung
Manchu
ᠴᡠᠰᡝ ᠮᠣᠣᡳ ᠠᡵᠰᡠᠨ
Manipuri
ꯎꯁꯣꯏ
Minangkabau
Rabuang
Norwegian Bokmål
bambusskudd
Norwegian Nynorsk
bambusskudd
Odia
କରଡ଼ି
Punjabi
ਬਾਂਸ ਦੀ ਸ਼ੂਟ
Simplified Chinese
笋
Sundanese
Iwung
Swedish
bambuskott
syl
ꠇꠞꠥꠟ
szy
tebu'
Tamil
முங்கில் குருத்து
tay
'ali'
Thai
หน่อไม้
Tibetan
སྨྱུག་རྩ།
Traditional Chinese
筍
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
筍
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
筍
Tulu
ಕಣಿಲೆ
Ukrainian
Паростки бамбука
Uzbek
Bambuk kurtaklari
Vietnamese
Măng
Wu Chinese
笋

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q2157176

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