the consumer demand for formulated foods containing soy proteins has resulted in an increase in the number of new products processed with soy ingredient. in this study acidified soy-cow milk blend drinks were manufactured by fermentation of mixtures of milk/soy milk in ratio of 100/0, 70/30 and 50/50 and dilution was done after fermentation to 4.5- 6.5 total solid (ts). high methoxyl pectin was...

Awara is an unfermented soybean product (also known as soybean curd). It is a softcheese -like food produced by curding fresh hot soy milk with either a salt or an acid [1]. Awara also known as Tofu is an important dietary snack food throughout Asia. It is the most important and popular food product from soybean in Eastern and Southern Asian countries. It is also gaining an increasing popularit...

Soy products are widely used in a variety of processed foods such as meet products, sausages, chocolate and breakfast cereals. The prevalence of soy allergy in adults is unknown. The development of soy allergy in the late adulthood is rare. In adults soy allergy mostly presents either as an occupational allergy or pollen-food syndrome developed on the ground of birch sensitization. A 38-year-ol...

BACKGROUND Contrary to earlier clinical studies suggesting that soy may promote breast tumor growth, two recent studies show that soy-containing foods are not adversely related to breast cancer prognosis. We examined, using data from the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) study, the effect of soy intake on breast cancer prognosis. METHODS Three thousand eighty-eight breast cancer surviv...

Spaghetti was prepared from durum wheat supplemented with soy flour in order to make an inexpensive, highly nutritious food and to determine the effects of high levels of soy flour on taste and textural attributes. Up to 50% soy flour was incorporated into spaghetti, resulting in a protein content of 33.5% (compared with 15.4% for control without soy) and a lysine content of 1.75% (compared wit...

BACKGROUND To determine the average intake of soy products and its association with socio-demographic, general and health characteristics, and dietary quality indices among the population of Isfahan, Iran. METHODS In this descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 491 subjects in 2013-2014, grocery stores, nuts stores, chain stores, and supermarkets from different areas of Isfahan Municip...

Japanese commercial natto, a sticky fermented food made from steamed soybeans, is produced using a pure culture of Bacillus subtilis, but natto-like products in other Asian countries are manufactured through a natural fermentation process (Chantawannakul et al., 2002; Chunhachart et al., 2006b; Sarkar et al., 2002; Tamang, 1999). These fermented soybean foods are different from brine-added ferm...

Food allergies affect 5-10% of infants, 2-5% of toddlers, and 1.3-2.6% of school children in Japan. Egg, milk and wheat are the major three food allergens. Soybean is one of the eight foods causing immediate allergic reactions, sometimes anaphylaxis. Fermented soybeans, miso and shoyu, are used in most of the traditional Japanese foods, and exposure to soybeans in Japanese children begins as on...

This case-control study in China evaluated the effect of soy food consumption and isoflavones (genistein and daidzein) on the risk of prostate cancer. One hundred and thirty-three cases and 265 age- and residential community-matched controls between the ages of 50 and 89 years were interviewed in person between 1989 and 1992. Usual consumption of soy foods and isoflavones was assessed using a f...