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Eat tofu as a home-cooked dish in autumn.
Tofu is a traditional food in China, which is delicious and healthy. It is also the main raw material of vegetarian dishes in China, which has always been welcomed by people and is known as "plant meat". Beginning of autumn solar terms, we should eat more tofu, as our home cooking on the table. In this way, we can use tofu as ingredients to help us nourish our bodies and achieve a delicious and healthy diet.

Tofu is mainly made of soybean, which contains more protein and fat, so the nutritional value of tofu is high. Tofu can be produced all year round, regardless of season, so in cool autumn, you can discard greasy meat and eat as much refreshing tofu as possible, which is also good for your health.

Tofu is rich in nutrition, containing many trace elements necessary for human body, such as iron, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, as well as sugar, vegetable oil and rich high-quality protein, and its digestion and absorption rate is over 95%. Two small pieces of tofu can meet a person's daily calcium demand.

Tofu is a nourishing, heat-clearing and health-preserving food. Regular eating can tonify the middle energizer, clear away heat and moisten dryness, promote fluid production to quench thirst and clear the stomach. It is more suitable for people with hot constitution, bad breath and thirst, indigestion in stomach and intestines, and need to be nursed back to health after a fever.

In addition to increasing nutrition, helping digestion and stimulating appetite, tofu is also beneficial to the growth and development of teeth and bones, and can increase the iron content in blood in hematopoietic function; Tofu contains no cholesterol, and is a medicinal food for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Tofu is rich in phytoestrogens, which has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Sterol and stigmasterol in tofu are both effective components in inhibiting cancer.