Soybean (also known as soyabean), the legume or bean with the botanical name Glycine max, has attained global importance as a rich source of proteins and polyunsaturated oil after the World War II. It is also an important vegetarian source of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Direct food uses of soybeans include soya milk and tofu (made from soya milk). Fermented foods like soy sauce are also made from soybeans.bean products over the past few years. Today, soybeans are cultivated across the globe in large quantities and are processed to obtain vegetable oil as well as the oil meal for a wide range of end-uses. Malaysia. Therefore, the soybean processing industry, i.e., solvent extraction plants to extract the triglyceride oil from soybeans and feed making plants to produce various animal feeds from the extracted soybean oil meal (and other oil meals), have flourished in these countries in the past several decades. Standards have been specified for various grades of soybeans which are traded across the globe. Soybeans generally contain about 18 to 20% triglyceride oil and 35 to 40% proteins on dry basis. Traditionally, soybeans are first processed in solvent extraction plants to obtain the vegetable oil and then the oil meal is either used as a component of different animal feeds. Soybean flour is also used to make traditional breads after mixing with other flours like wheat flour. Other products like textured vegetable proteins (TVP) are also made from soybeans. Baby food formulations, meat and dairy alternatives, soy nut butter are some of the advanced food products made from soybeans.
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