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With the development of science and the improvement of human cultural quality, people began to re-understand bean dregs from the perspective of nutrition. Studies have proved that some nutrients in soybean remain in bean dregs. Generally, bean dregs contain 85% water, 3.0% protein, 0.5% fat and 8.0% carbohydrates (cellulose, polysaccharide, etc. ), in addition, they also contain minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron.
Eating bean dregs can reduce the cholesterol content in blood and reduce the consumption of insulin by diabetics; Bean curd residue is rich in dietary fiber, which can prevent intestinal cancer and lose weight, so bean curd residue is regarded as a new healthy food source.
In addition to the traditional consumption form of tofu, a new consumption mode-soybean milk is welcomed by consumers. For example, in Argentina, Brazil and the United States, the output of soybean milk is very large. The main by-product in the production of tofu and soybean milk is bean dregs. How to make full use of the growing bean dregs has become one of the concerns of researchers all over the world.
The utilization rate of bean dregs is low. The traditional utilization method is to feed bean dregs directly to animals, but the utilization rate of many high-nutrient components in bean dregs is very low. In Japan, a lot of bean dregs are burned. In Hong Kong, bean dregs are usually piled up as waste and have no use. It can be seen that how to make better use of bean dregs has become an urgent problem to be studied and solved.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-bean dregs