Shanghai people often "eat tofu" for women flirting banter. In fact, this sentence is out of tofu antiquata story, often under the guise of erotic description of a group to eat bean curd workshop indeed For peeping antiquata tofu. But before long, "eat tofu" has become a fashionable health food. Tofu can be seen very early on in the Chinese food in.
Tofu, as we all know is made from soya beans by. Soybeans, also known as soybean, soybean is a legume seeds, in fact, as early as in ancient books more than 2000 years ago - has been recorded on the Huang Di Nei Jing, when the soybean grain as one of the five, saying it was "Shu" . The Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, a book, but also summed up the effectiveness of Chinese history for soybeans and tonics as their medical treatment and its prescription. To the de eighteenth century, until imported soybeans in Europe, this is also the Chinese food culture to the world a major contribution. The yellow bean products most people are familiar with tofu, according to legend is the second century BC Han invented by Liu; Sichuan specialty in Mapo Tofu is a world famous, the first by a man named Ma-po by the firing of the old woman, enough to appear, soybeans and is closely related to Chinese culture. The Japanese restaurant by the taste, such as soup and natto, now also been given anti-cancer Treasure reputation, it is derived from soybean related products.
In fact, the use of soybeans by the Chinese people have more than two thousand years of history, but its role in the health of health until the twentieth century has gradually been recognized. Soy ingredients are mainly protein, plant-derived isoflavone, unsaturated fatty acids, folic acid, vitamin E, magnesium, potassium and rare element molybdenum, selenium, etc., in which soy protein is absolutely excellent source of protein substitute, can replace animal protein. Soybeans also provides unsaturated fatty acids, contribute to cardiovascular disease and obesity, lower cholesterol, prevent hardening of the arteries; more study indicated that menopausal women eat more soy products Huang can reduce the risk of coronary artery disease, stroke, osteoporosis risk. In addition, soy also contains nine amino acids must, in particular a large number of lysine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, as well as soy lecithin, Trace acid, can help the development of the human brain.
Studies have also confirmed that soy is a good helper in cancer prevention, in particular its plant contains isoflavones, you can and in vivo with each other naturally occurring hormone antagonist, can be prevented with hormone-related cancers, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer. An epidemiological study pointed out that the diet containing a large number of Asian soybean women, the risk of breast cancer is far lower than the day-to-day feeding soybean less American women. In addition, the drying soybeans, phytic acid can prevent the carcinogenic substances and the DNA of normal cells combine to reduce the normal cells cancerous. And soybeans in the molybdenum, nitrite can significantly reduce the genetic material of cells, damage and enhance the body's repair capacity. Also contained in its saponin more to enhance the capacity of self-anti-cancer immune surveillance role.
It is worth mentioning that other soy products, such as Natto also contains large quantities of dissolved thrombosis can get natto kinase can prevent cerebral blood vessels, heart thrombosis, some scholars recommended that the elderly usually advised to eat natto, beans drum.
It should be noted that should be cooked soybeans, because eating is not cooked soybeans, may cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, headache, abdominal distension and diarrhea were symptoms, In addition, the tofu may also be the same as meat, breeding Salmonella, Therefore, they should pay attention to dishes clean chopping boards; and gout and hyperuricemia patients should also be beans products.
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