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 heat constitution, bad breath, thirst, indigestion and fever. Modern medicine has proved that tofu not only has the function of increasing nutrition, helping digestion and stimulating appetite, but also is 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. Supplementing nutrition for children, patients and the elderly is also a good diet therapy. Tofu is rich in phytoestrogens and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
Pumpkin bean curd soup is also more nutritious and suitable for all ages. It can be used as a dish or as a staple food. When you have no appetite and don't want to eat in hot weather, have a bowl of this pumpkin tofu soup.
Pumpkin can lower blood sugar, has a good effect on diabetes, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on hypertension and some liver diseases; Mannitol contained in pumpkin has laxative effect, which can reduce the harm of toxins in feces to human body and prevent the occurrence of colon cancer, so it is called "anticancer food". The content of carotene in pumpkin is high, which is the precursor of vitamin A. After being ingested by human body, it is quickly converted into vitamin A and absorbed and utilized, which plays an important role in protecting eyesight. It also contains a "cobalt" component, which has the function of enriching blood after eating.