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Initial content of article modified from Tofu etc. Fg2 01:40, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Yuba as camping food

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Needs citations. It's difficult to find yuba outside of Asian markets (in the US), I'm curious how it could be considered a good camping food. Is camping common/popular in Asia? --Keflavich 17:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In this case American campers could buy some Yuba. Whitebox 13:42, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the sentence:

Dried yuba is excellent for camping trips, as a small bag will provide many days of quality protein.

At least in Japan, yuba is not considered to be a camping food. --163.139.215.193 15:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Tofu skin roll ?

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No real opinion either way, but I thought the question had to be asked.FlagSteward 13:00, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese and Japanese

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Can we get sections for Chinese and Japanese uses? Badagnani 05:50, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why does this redirect here instead of tofu? It shouldn’t, right? —Wiki Wikardo 21:07, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Health Claims

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In the 'Benefits' claims, I have deleted health claims that are probably unsupportable and certainly dangerous without mention of the serious health risks of soya consumption for many people. I retained the nutritional 'benefits', and the reference, although I don't know whether it was a source for the nutrition information, the health benefits, or both. It was apparently a cookery book, which may be an acceptable reference for nutritional claims, but surely not for health claims.

The deleted claims are benefits that, I think, have been probably established for some ingredients of soy (soya). It is completely out of order (and generally illegal if you're selling the food--depending where, of course) to claim such benefits for a food, especially one like this that is highly modified from the original plant material. Without research that almost certainly has not been attempted, we don't know if the amount of this product that would have to be consumed to achieve any of the benefits could be lethal in other ways.

Even in the USA, where regulation of quackery is appallingly weak (but not as bad as in my own Australia) the FDA has clamped down on scores of companies for illegal use of health claims in marketing their soya products. Please don't let Wikipedia have lower standards. --Alkhowarizmi (talk) 12:00, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Favonian (talk) 21:48, 25 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]


Tofu skinYuba – Yuba (a Japanese word) is the standard name for this soyfood product the United States and Canada. It is used by all the companies that manufacture yuba in the United States. None of those companies use the term "Tofu skin." I have just finished writing a lengthy scholarly book on the subject, which contains 733 references (mostly in English) - cited on this page - and the term "Tofu skin" appeared only twice in all of the references to that book. The term "Tofu skin" was coined by the writer of a recent Asian cookbook. Using Ngram viewer to compare yuba skin,yuba will demonstrate clearly that the term "tofu skin" is a recently coined and rarely used term - unlike yuba. Moreover yuba has nothing to do with tofu! It is not the skin of tofu and is not made from the skin of tofu. I consider it to be a confusing term that certainly should not be the title of a wikipedia page. Who might object to the name yuba? Perhaps people of Chinese culture who refer to yuba as "beancurd skin." I believe this term is less popular than yuba because is is (1) Unappetizing. (2) Longer than yuba, (3) Inaccurate - again, yuba has nothing to do with tofu except that both are made from soymilk. BillShurts (talk) 19:36, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.