Nutritional Match

Tofu is recognized as a nutritious food. It is not only natural and healthy, but also simple and easy to do, it is our common home cooking. Tofu cooking, the flavor can be strong or light, and all the ingredients are almost "match". But if you want to better absorb the nutrients of tofu, at the table to find it a good "partner".

1. With a bit of meat, the protein is well absorbed. Soybeans have a "plant meat" reputation, it is plant food protein in the most excellent food. With soy made of tofu, of course, protein is not bad. However, the amino acid content and proportion of protein in tofu is not very reasonable, nor is it particularly suitable for human digestion and absorption.

Therefore, if you eat tofu and add some very high quality protein food, you can play a "protein complementary" role with tofu, so that the protein of tofu is better absorbed and utilized by the human body. These high-quality protein foods are not meat and eggs. Therefore, the minced meat roasted tofu, eggs mixed with tofu, etc., can make the tofu protein better absorption.

2. Add egg yolk and blood tofu for more calcium. Just like eating calcium tablets at the same time to supplement vitamin D, eat tofu to replenish calcium, with some Vitamin D-rich food. Because in the process of calcium absorption and utilization, vitamin D plays a very important role. Although tofu is very rich in calcium, north tofu in the calcium than the same amount of milk, but in eating tofu, with vitamin D-rich foods to more effective.

Egg yolks are very rich in vitamin D, so the deliciously smooth egg yolk tofu is an excellent calcium supplement. Animal offal, such as liver, blood is also high in vitamin D, so the white tofu and blood tofu together to make "red and white tofu" is also very ideal. In addition, animal offal such as chicken gizzards and pig livers are also good for increasing calcium absorption in tofu.

3. Add seaweed and seaweed, can be more iodine. Tofu can not only supplement the nutrition, but also on the prevention of atherosclerosis has a certain therapeutic effect. This is because tofu contains a substance called saponin, can prevent the production of oxidized lipids that cause atherosclerosis. But saponins will bring a trouble: cause the body of iodine excretion, if long-term consumption may lead to iodine deficiency. Therefore, eat tofu with some seaweed, seaweed and other iodine-rich seafood with cooking, the best of both worlds.

4. Put bok choy, fungus, more disease prevention. Although tofu is nutritious, but dietary fiber is relatively lack of, eat alone tofu may bring constipation trouble. And bok choy and fungus are rich in dietary fiber, just to make up for this shortcoming of the tofu. In addition, fungus and bok choy also contain many antioxidant components that can improve immunity and prevent disease, with tofu consumption, the role of anti-disease better. It should be noted that spinach, amaranth and other leafy greens in the high content of oxalic acid, should be blanched before cooking with tofu, so as not to affect the absorption of calcium in the tofu.