Tahooooo!!!!

It’s amazing how such a simple and lowly street food can make a morning good, indeed. Taho, the Philippine delicacy is a reminder of a more innocent time when people can find solace in the warm bean curd, sweet (but not too sweet) arnibal (liquefied raw sugar) and soft sago (tapioca balls) first thing in the morning. Just to hear the vendor shouting “tahooooo!!” makes one’s heart skip a beat and one’s feet race outside the house for a fix. Soya joy, you may call it.

You might think of that rich chocolate cake sure is delicious but we cannot have it everyday. Soya, however is one diet food that we can take daily and live. Consider the benefits of a soya-rich diet: reduced chances of cardiovascular diseases, cancer and post menopausal syndromes and improved bone density. Soy contains the utmost concentration of the mighty isoflavones, which with faithful intake can also promote better breast health for women and prostate health for men. Who says that eating healthy should be bland and boring? There are many soya recipes to suit one’s taste buds.

Taho is just one of many soya products that have been dubbed as health food. Soya diet foods include silky, soft and hard tofu, beancurd skin, soybean paste, and soy ice cream, to name a few. High in protein, low in fat and absolutely low cost, soya products are staples of the Asian diet for ages. Now, the rest of the world’s catching up on the yummy delights and health benefits of soya.

Soy related foods - it truly seems to be a wonder food. Soy is an excellent source of dietary fiber and protein. It is rich in vitamin B6 - important in building amino acids and in the formation of neurotransmitters. Furthermore, soy is often recommended as an alternative for meat in low-fat diets.