This tofu is made of not usual soybeans, but from the black ones (kuromame). Naturally, both color and tofu are darker than usual; it's well approaches as snack. Kuromame-dofu is rich with proteins, oils and vitamin B1 and B2. So it's named as meat from vegetable garden. Kuromame contains such material as antotsianin, for example. You will not find it in usual soybeans. Also it helps at hypertension. It is one of the sources of energy. The main producer of kuromame is Shinoyama, Kyoto prefecture.

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