Within hours of going live with this blog, I was immediately inundated with questions on the health benefits and risks of consuming soy products. With lots of people asking the same thing, it became abundantly clear that the healthfulness of soy needs to be our first topic of conversation here! Soy products include a wide variety of foods including soy flour, soy milk, tofu, edamame (young whole soybeans), soy protein isolates, texturized vegetable protein (TVP), soy curls and soy oil. Tempeh, natto and miso are fermented versions of soybeans. Processed soy food items include soy meats, cheeses, ice cream, yogurt and the list just keeps growing. Soy lecithin is used as an emulsifier to retain moisture in food. Lecithin is easily extracted from soybeans and, hence, is found in an astonishing array of foods, mostly processed foods. In fact, nearly 60% of processed foods in the US have some
October 2, 2013
