How to eat tofu and the most nutritious way to make tofu

　　Tofu is the most common food in our daily life, and it is rich in nutrients and can provide many nutrients our body needs. Not only is it delicious, but it's also easy to make. But do you know how to eat tofu to make it the most nutritious? healthy ? The following 4 combinations of tofu are the most nutritious.

　　There are taboos in eating tofu. The 4 most nutritious combinations of tofu

　　1. Add vegetables and fungus to prevent diseases. Although tofu is rich in nutrients, it is relatively lacking in dietary fiber. Eating tofu alone may cause constipate trouble. Both green vegetables and fungus are rich in dietary fiber, which can just make up for this shortcoming of tofu. In addition, fungus and green vegetables also contain many substances that can improve immunity and prevent disease It contains antioxidant ingredients, and when eaten with tofu, it has better disease-fighting effects. It should be noted that green leafy vegetables such as spinach and amaranth have high oxalic acid content and should be blanched before cooking with tofu to avoid affecting the absorption of calcium in tofu.

　　2. With some meat, the protein is easy to absorb. Soybeans are known as "plant meat" and are the best protein among plant foods. Tofu made from soybeans is of course not bad in protein either. However, the content and proportion of protein and amino acids in tofu are not very reasonable, nor are they particularly suitable for human body digestion and absorption.

　　Therefore, if you add some foods with very high protein quality while eating tofu, it can play a "protein complementary" role with the tofu, so that the protein of tofu can be better absorbed and utilized by the body. These high-quality protein foods are not meat and egg Nothing else. Therefore, roasting tofu with minced meat, mixing preserved eggs with tofu, etc. can make the protein of tofu better absorbed.

　　3. Add egg yolk and blood tofu to supplement more calcium. Just like taking calcium tablets while supplementing vitamin D, eating tofu to supplement calcium must be paired with some vitamin D-rich foods. Because vitamin D plays a very important role in the absorption and utilization of calcium. Although tofu is very rich in calcium, and northern tofu contains more calcium than the same amount of milk, when eating tofu, it is more effective when paired with foods rich in vitamin D.

　　Egg yolk is rich in vitamin D, so the delicious and tender egg yolk tofu is an excellent dish for calcium supplementation. Animal internal organs, such as liver, and blood are also high in vitamin D, so it is also ideal to make white tofu and blood tofu together to make "red and white tofu". In addition, animal offal such as chicken gizzards and pork liver also play a very good role in increasing the calcium absorption of tofu.

　　Wrong pairing: spinach tofu

　　Stir-fried tofu with spinach is a common sight on the dining table, but unfortunately this dish is not cooked scientifically. Because there is oxalic acid in spinach, it reacts chemically with the calcium in tofu to form an insoluble substance, calcium oxalate. In this way, the calcium in tofu cannot be used by the human body, and it is easy to form stones in the body.

　　Don’t eat too much tofu

　　Tofu is recognized as a good health food. Eating tofu in moderation is indeed very good for human health. However, eating tofu is not always better, and excessive consumption of tofu can also be harmful to health.

　　The soybeans used to make tofu contain saponins, which can prevent atherosclerosis and promote the excretion of iodine in the body. Long-term excessive consumption of tofu can easily lead to iodine deficiency and iodine deficiency disease.

　　Tofu is extremely rich in protein. Eating too much at one time will not only hinder the body's absorption of iron, but also easily cause protein indigestion, swelling, and diarrhea and other discomfort symptoms.

　　Under normal circumstances, the plant protein that people eat into the body is metabolized into nitrogenous waste and excreted by the kidneys. Eating a large amount of tofu will increase the amount of nitrogen-containing waste produced in the body and increase the burden on the kidneys.