According to legend, Liu An did not go into politics, but aspired high. He is not satisfied with being a king in name only. He always wants to seek a more prominent real role. He is also obsessed with the art of immortality and is eager to seek a panacea.

So, he called warlocks and disciples to light a blazing fire at the foot of Bagong Mountain and creatively told them to make an alchemy with soybeans and brine. So, they "refined" the white and delicate tofu. Although it is not a panacea, it tastes delicious and unique.

This thing soon spread and became popular all over the world. There is a poem to prove it: "It is difficult to raise peas and work hard." If I had known Huainan art, I would have gained spring cloth. "Since then, tofu has become a famous traditional snack of the Han nationality.

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nutritive value

Tofu brain 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, and is known as "vegetable meat". The digestion and absorption rate of tofu is above 95%. Two small pieces of tofu can meet a person's daily calcium requirement.

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 and quench thirst, and clean 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. 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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