Bamboo adds aesthetic beauty to wherever they are grown and are also a sustainable food source. To grow bamboo, it is most ...

You can often find fresh bamboo shoots in Asian food stores ... fresh shoots and have the advantage of being ready prepared and perfectly safe to eat. Look for whole canned shoots, if possible ...

KITA-KYUSHU, Fukuoka Prefecture--Spring in Japan is not limited to enjoying sakura--it’s the perfect time to enjoy the taste of the season, “takenoko,” or bamboo shoots. Takenoko are being ...

The reedy, tree-like grass is a panda’s primary food source, especially the shoots. However, because bamboo has little protein, pandas can eat up to 12 hours a day, consuming roughly 26 to 84 pounds ...

A panda's daily diet consists almost entirely of the leaves, stems and shoots of various bamboo species. Bamboo contains very little nutritional value so pandas must eat 12-38kg every day to meet ...

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet ... stems and shoots, about 1% of their food comes from other ...