What Is Tofu?

Tofu is a processed food that soybean squeezed juice (soymilk) is hardened with a coagulant (bittern, others).

It is a processed soybean food that has been eaten from ancient times in a wide area of ​​East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Processing method and cooking method differed from country to country, but Japanese tofu developed as 'Japanese unique food' with white and soft texture.

The current Japanese tofu is a unique thing characterized by a soft and pale white texture,

In contrast to this, Chinese and Korean tofu were often cooked by stir-frying and deep-frying, so the moisture content of the tofu is harder than that of Japanese tofu.

Generally, it is said that tofu was delivered from China to Japan, it was transmitted to the private sector around the end of the Kamakura period, and spread to various parts of Japan during the Muromachi period.

In the Edo period it was supposed to be a regular ingredient to eat well.

This tofu in this Edo period was only cotton tofu called today.

In Tofu restaurant in Tofu is a reputation, "Sasa no yuki" which sold silk tofu for the first time in Edo is a long-established store still continuing.

At that time, familiar to the common people was tofu 's rice dumplings, stuffed with tofu on a skewer, baked, and eaten with red miso.

Since ancient times, tofu has been said to longevity food because there are many longevity in rural areas that have taken this much.

Due to the establishment of nutrition science etc. in recent years, it is said that it is an extremely nutritious food with its scientific proof that it is an extremely high quality protein food.

In modern Japan too, tofu is a very common food, it can be consumed as it is with seasoning, and it is used for various dishes.

In addition to becoming main food ingredients such as cold tofu, yuzu tofu and miso sauce, ingredients such as soup and pot dish ingredients, used as ingredients to be the basis of cooking, etc. have become versatile.

In recent years, attention has been paid to foods (functional foods) effective for suppressing and restoring these symptoms, and for maintaining good health against the background of increased cancer, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, diabetes, adult diseases, obesity, etc. It is. The components of tofu have also been elucidated one by one that their function is indeed, tofu is an old new health food.

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