On February 23 2016 05:20 aboxcar wrote: how often do you eat fermented tofu? do you have an opinion on its health properties
I have it in the fridge and I can eat it pretty much every morning. it's health properties... ehhh... it's basically salt. I use it like a flavored salt. You can't finish a whole block anyways it's too salty. So treat it as a condiments not as a food material!! :D
edit: I would like to think it's very similar to miso in term of the non-salt part. it's fermented beans. one of the greatest human achievement is to eat cooked and fermented food, made things much easier to digest.
lately in the english-speaking world, fermented foods are kind of trending as a healthy food,
but all the somewhat older chinese/asians seem to think fermented things cause cancer. I know a nutritionist who helped study 豆腐乳 in rats in taiwan when she was young. she told me all of them got cancer. koreans get more of a certain type of cancer, i forget which (esophageal? stomach?), and i think some suspect kimchi has something to do with it.
I think 臭豆腐 is technically fermented tofu too, and if we had it here I would eat it every day XD
On February 26 2016 09:54 aboxcar wrote: lately in the english-speaking world, fermented foods are kind of trending as a healthy food,
but all the somewhat older chinese/asians seem to think fermented things cause cancer. I know a nutritionist who helped study 豆腐乳 in rats in taiwan when she was young. she told me all of them got cancer. koreans get more of a certain type of cancer, i forget which (esophageal? stomach?), and i think some suspect kimchi has something to do with it.
I think 臭豆腐 is technically fermented tofu too, and if we had it here I would eat it every day XD
On February 26 2016 09:54 aboxcar wrote: lately in the english-speaking world, fermented foods are kind of trending as a healthy food,
but all the somewhat older chinese/asians seem to think fermented things cause cancer. I know a nutritionist who helped study 豆腐乳 in rats in taiwan when she was young. she told me all of them got cancer. koreans get more of a certain type of cancer, i forget which (esophageal? stomach?), and i think some suspect kimchi has something to do with it.
I think 臭豆腐 is technically fermented tofu too, and if we had it here I would eat it every day XD
Any sources? Kinda curious.
just ask your parents/other older people about their opinions. I'm assuming you're chinese/asian. it's just general sentiment I've noticed. even like in youtube 健康加油站 (it's one of my bedtime shows lol.. i'm a small-time health nut). a lot of general notions/sentiments are complete opposites of western trends. for example, chinese also think spicy food is unhealthy, but westerners can't get enough of spicy food atm.
On February 26 2016 09:54 aboxcar wrote: lately in the english-speaking world, fermented foods are kind of trending as a healthy food,
but all the somewhat older chinese/asians seem to think fermented things cause cancer. I know a nutritionist who helped study 豆腐乳 in rats in taiwan when she was young. she told me all of them got cancer. koreans get more of a certain type of cancer, i forget which (esophageal? stomach?), and i think some suspect kimchi has something to do with it.
I think 臭豆腐 is technically fermented tofu too, and if we had it here I would eat it every day XD
Any sources? Kinda curious.
just ask your parents/other older people about their opinions. I'm assuming you're chinese/asian. it's just general sentiment I've noticed. even like in youtube 健康加油站 (it's one of my bedtime shows lol.. i'm a small-time health nut). a lot of general notions/sentiments are complete opposites of western trends. for example, chinese also think spicy food is unhealthy, but westerners can't get enough of spicy food atm.
nope, haha, white as white can be actually I just like to be knowledgeable.