Tofu is a nourishing, heat-clearing and health-preserving food. Often eaten, it has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, clearing away heat and moistening dryness, promoting fluid production to quench thirst and cleaning the stomach. Modern medicine has proved that tofu not only has the function of increasing nutrition, helping digestion and stimulating appetite, but also is quite beneficial to the growth and development of teeth and bones.

Tofu is rich in nutrition, containing many essential trace elements such as iron, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, as well as sugar, vegetable oil and rich high-quality protein. Known as "plant meat", the biological value of soybean protein can be comparable to that of fish, and it is a leader in plant protein.

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 and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

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Tofu taboo:

Although tofu is good, eating too much has disadvantages, and eating too much will also endanger health. For example, it causes indigestion, and tofu is rich in protein. Eating too much at a time not only hinders the absorption of iron, but also easily causes symptoms such as bloating and diarrhea.

In particular, patients with gout eating tofu will aggravate the attack of gout: tofu contains more purines, and patients with gout with abnormal purine metabolism and patients with elevated blood uric acid concentration are prone to gout attacks, especially gout patients should eat less.

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