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baby soybeans that bullied their way into being a fancy appetizer
means Young, immature soybeans, usually still in the pod, boiled or steamed and lightly salted as a snack or appetizer.
from Straight from Japanese: 枝豆 (edamame), literally 'branch beans' (eda, 'branch' or 'twig,' plus mame, 'bean') — a nod to how the pods were once sold and served still attached to their stems. The mame here is the same humble bean-word that shows up across Japanese cuisine, from soybeans to azuki.
- means
- Japanese for stem bean, harvested young and green
- complete protein
- contains all nine essential amino acids
- shell trick
- the fuzzy pod is technically inedible
- speed grower
- goes from seed to harvest in weeks
for instance
edamame iowa usa — the decatur soybean processing plant in iowa produces edamame for frozen export, making the us a major supplier