You can often find fresh bamboo shoots in Asian food stores, but they’re not easy to prepare as they’re protected by many layers of overlapping, brown husk covered in fine, sharp hairs.

Bamboo, a known sustainable construction material, should be incorporated into the National Building Code (NBC) of the Philippines for mainstream use, a civil engineer and bamboo advocate said. Engr.

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 ...