Wayanadans Bamboo Rices
Usually, bamboo groves flower once in 40 years. With resemblence to paddy rice and wheat-like taste, amboo rice is comparatively much richer in protein. Not only tribes but local people here also consider it as a good substitute for rice. A wide range of delicacies like payasam, unniyappam (sweet balls), uppumavu and puttu, made of bamboo rice, are high on demand in the tourists centres and homestays in Wayanad, a major highrange tourist hub in Kerala. "The nutrituous value of bamboo rice is very remarkable. It is more healthy to have bamboo rice than the rice from paddy, a scientist with the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) said. According to forest department.