1. Materials
- Bamboo shoots, 2- and 5-year-old Air-dried cut into small size of 2 mm. oven at103 ± 2 °c for 24 h.
2. Pretreatments
The ultra-high pressure explosion pretreatment (UHPE) of bamboo was carried out in a High Pressure Homogenizer
Bamboo 50 g on an oven-dry basis samples were immersed in 400 mL NaOH solutions of 2%.
The mixtures were placed in an autoclave and heating the mixture to 121 C and maintained for 2 h.