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When you walk into a dining room or a restaurant on the street, you can often see tofu on the menu. Yes, tofu! Tofu is a big part of our daily diet.

Tofu can be made1many food such as Mapo Tofu（麻婆豆腐），assorted tofu（什锦豆腐）and snacks like stinky tofu（臭豆腐）2tofu can be used for so many different things? Tofu has a mild taste, which gives it the ability to take on nearly any flavor, so it is easy to add to many dishes and snacks.

People like eating tofu because it is a kind of3food. Tofu is4 in soy protein, vitamins and mineral—all of which are necessary for good health. According to a recent study by nutrition experts at the University of Illinois, US, 5you eat soy protein often, it can help lower cholesterol   （胆固醇）levels by as6as 30 percent.

Tofu was invented over 2，000 years ago by the Chinese. While the true story behind its creation is7, legend has it that tofu was discovered8when a Chinese cook added nigari（盐卤）to a pot of soybean milk. It caused the milk to curdle （凝固）and the result was tofu.

Tofu is not only popular in China, also in Western countries. Tofu9Western attention in the 1960s because Western people thought tofu could be the healthy food they were10. Westerners sometimes call it "the cheese of Asia"，because a block of tofu can look like a block of cheese.