Tempting Tofu - recipes

Vegetarian Times, April, 1999 by Kathy Farrell-Kingsley

Tofu Breakdown

One-half cup (4 ounces) of extra-firm tofu contains the following:

85 calories
9 g. fat (0 saturated)
3 g. carbohydrates
154 mg. calcium
2 mg. iron
8 mg. sodium
50 mg. potassium

(The nutritional content of tofu will vary slightly depending on what strain of soybean was used and what method was used to process it.)

Kathy Farrell-Kingsley is food editor of Vegetarian Times.