I know this thread is about a hundred years old, but I feel I have to let gracecame (or any other reading this) know that a bamboo shoot is HUGE!! You couldn't possibly have downed a whole shoot in one sitting.

It's not like it's the size of an asparagus. If we ever see what looks like whole shoots in a can or so, it's likely to be the top shots of it. I use bamboo a lot in my stirfrying. It's really good LC-food. Taste-dense. 1 oz of pure sliced bamboo shoots has only 0.84 g carbs if no nonsense is added in the process of canning it.