The human brain has the same consistency as tofu.
“The brain doesn’t spread like toothpaste. It doesn’t adhere to your fingers the way toothpaste does,” neurosurgeon Katrina Firlik writes in her memoir, “Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside” (Random House, 2006). “Tofu — the soft variety, if you know tofu — may be a more accurate comparison.”