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a humble bean quietly impersonating meat, milk, ink, and plastic worldwide.
means The edible seed of an East Asian legume plant, eaten as food and processed into everything from tofu and soy sauce to oil and industrial products.
from From Dutch 'soja,' which the Dutch borrowed from Japanese 'shoyu' — the name of the fermented sauce, not the bean itself. That Japanese word traces back to Chinese, and the sauce gave its name to the plant when Europeans met it. So 'soy' literally means 'sauce'; 'soybean' is, in effect, the 'sauce-bean.' The Japanese also call the bean 'daizu,' the 'great bean,' but it was the sauce that sailed west and lent its name.
- protein power
- Contains all nine essential amino acids, rare for plants
- crayon secret
- Soy oil replaced petroleum in many modern crayons
- global giant
- Most of the crop feeds livestock, not humans
- ancient roots
- Cultivated in China over 3,000 years ago
- ink innovation
- Soy ink prints many of your newspapers
brazil soybean expansion — world's second largest producer, cultivating 37 million hectares across cerrado region by 2023
iowa soybean production — us leading state producing 11.6 million acres annually, primarily in corn-soybean rotation