Bean curd eat many kidney damage

Cornwall-in Peking union medical college hospital clinical nutrition division

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Bean curd is many highly health food. It is based on soybean, green beans, black beans as raw materials, classics immerses, milling, filter, boil pulp, solidification and molding process and become. Tofu and soy protein content of higher than soybeans, and bean curd proteins are completely protein, not only contain the necessary human, 8 kinds of amino acids, the ratio was close to human needs.

        But no more delicious greed, good thing is as good as a feast. Long-term and many tofu may produce the following questions:

        First, attack prompted gout. Bean curd including purine more, purine metabolic disorders gout patients and blood uric acid concentration of serum patients, many tofu easy to attack the gout.

        Second, cause indigestion. Tofu contains rich protein, a eat too much not only stunts the human body to absorb iron, and easy to cause the protein indigestion, appear abdominal distension and diarrhea symptoms.

        Third, increase the kidney burden. In normal circumstances, people eat into the body of plant proteins through metabolism, and finally become waste most of nitrogen, by nephritic eduction body outside. People to the old, and the ability of renal excretion waste, then if no attention to diet, eating plenty of tofu, taking in too much plant sex protein resulting in the body of the generation of nitrogen increased waste, add to the kidney burden, is not conducive to health.