Can tofu be eaten in the refrigerator for a day?

Tofu is a bean product. If it is cold, it will not go bad for 4 to 5 days, and it can still be eaten within 24 hours in summer.

If there is mucus in the tofu, it means that the tofu has gone bad and can't be eaten whether it is put in the refrigerator or not. Besides mucus, tofu will turn black and yellow. Tofu is shapeless, divergent, sticky and smelly. Tofu with these changes is inedible.

Tofu is a kind of food with soybean as the main raw material, which originated in China and is also common in Viet Nam, Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

Tofu is easy to get sticky after a long time, which affects the taste. Tofu can be preserved for at least a week as long as it is boiled in salt water, cooled and put into a fresh-keeping box filled with water.

Tofu is rich in nutrition and contains trace elements necessary for human body, such as iron, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. It also contains 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 to quench thirst and clear 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, which is a delicious 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.