Bamboo leaves are also known as golden pheasant rice, camouflage grass, pheasant rice, etc. It is the stem and leaf of light bamboo leaf, a grass plant. In recent years, Chinese experts in medicine, food science and other fields have found that despite the different types of bamboo, its leaf components have good nutritional and health functions. The unique fragrance of bamboo leaves caters to the modern people's mentality of "returning to nature".
The leaves of Phyllostachys gracilis contain triterpenoids, phytosterols, flavonoids, alkaloids, phenols, polysaccharides, etc. Triterpene compounds are the main components of the leaves of Phyllostachys odoratum. They include iridoid, asparagin, citronellin, taraxanthinol, medicine, medicine-7-O- β- D-glucoside, etc; Phytosterol β- Sitosterol, stigmasterol, rapeseed sterol, etc; The flavonoid compound is vitexin; Alkaloids include thymine, adenine, etc; Phenolic components include 3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, trans-p-hydroxycinnamaldehyde, vanillin, etc.