Tofu is an ancient food and in Zen cuisine it reaches back 600 years or more. One of the Japanese companies producing nigari, the key to binding the soybean milk is nigari, micro-neoekis, a purified magnesium chloride originally taken from the ocean.

The company Yoshikawa Shoji refine ocean nigari to provide the safest and most suitable nigari for tofu making, and it’s made without the use any chemicals or additives that  might be injurious to human health.