permaculture

[Robyn Francis <robyn@permaculture.com.au>]

The toxic alkaloid in bamboo shoots is cyanide, which gives a bitter flavour. 
Edible bamboos have low levels of cyanide, though still require leaching by 
boiling in water with a little salt, some require several changes of water to 
leach the cyanide out before being safe to eat.
Robyn



On 03/06/2012, at 6:04 AM, Dieter Brand wrote:

> I have a number of edible bamboos which I have been harvesting for a few 
> years.  There is one type of bamboo a neighbor gave to me and of which I 
> don’t know the name.  Since I don’t know the name I can’t check if it is 
> edible or not.
> 
> The problem is that I don’t know what it means if a bamboo is “not edible”. 
>  Does it mean that it is poisonous or does it just mean that it doesn’t 
> taste very good or that it is too hard to eat?  I tried a bit raw today and 
> it didn’t taste much different from the edible ones I have.  Would it be 
> safe to eat?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dieter
> 
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