1. Tofu is nutritious and contains iron, magnesium, potassium, nicotinic acid, copper, calcium, zinc, phosphorus, folic acid, vitamin B 1, egg yolk and vitamin B6.

2. The content of amino acids and protein in tofu is very high, and it is a good supplementary food for cereals.

Tofu is a nourishing, heat-clearing and health-preserving food. Regular food can tonify the middle energizer, clear away heat and moisten dryness, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and clean the stomach. It is more suitable for people with heat constitution, bad breath, thirst, indigestion and fever.

4. 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.

5. Tofu is rich in phytoestrogens, which has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. It also has the function of inhibiting breast cancer, prostate cancer and hematological tumor diseases. Sterol and stigmasterol in tofu are both effective components in inhibiting cancer.

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Tofu is helpful for menopausal women. When a female friend reaches a certain age, she is prone to menopausal syndrome because of insufficient estrogen secretion. At this time, many women will choose medication. Eating frozen tofu helps to lose weight. Fresh tofu will produce an acidic substance after freezing, which can destroy the accumulated fat in the human body and achieve the purpose of losing weight.

Because tofu contains more purines, gout patients with abnormal purine metabolism and patients with elevated blood uric acid concentration should not eat tofu. Those with rotten cold, stomach cold, diarrhea, abdominal distension, spleen deficiency and kidney deficiency, and frequent nocturnal emission should not eat more. Packaged tofu goes bad easily. After you buy it, soak it in water immediately, put it in the refrigerator, take it out and cook it. Take it out for no more than 4 hours and keep it fresh. It is best to eat it on the day of purchase.

Under normal circumstances, the plant protein ingested by people changes through metabolism and eventually becomes nitrogen-containing waste. Eating a lot of tofu and eating too much plant protein will inevitably increase the nitrogen-containing waste produced in the body, increase the burden on the kidneys, and further reduce the renal function, which is not conducive to health.

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Baidu encyclopedia-tofu