PostsInexpensive high-quality protein food for the masses is becoming more essential for this planet with each passing day. Taking a closer look at the soybean may hold many answers for better use of valuable land.
Quality Land Use
One acre of land can produce 20 times as much usable protein with soybeans than if used for grazing beef for meat protein. In other words, one acre can produce 360 pounds of usable soybean protein but only 20 pounds of usable beef protein.
Not only is the soybean a high quantity yield food but its also a high-quality food. Soybeans contain about 35% protein. That is more than any other unprocessed plant or animal food used on this planet. Soy protein holds all eight essential amino acids used by the human body.
Valuable Use of Soybeans
Inexpensive soybean foods contain no cholesterol. They have a low ratio of calories to protein and almost none of the indigestible saturated fats found in most animal foods.
Asian countries have been taking advantage of these facts for hundreds of years. Making foods from soybeans has been as common in Japan and China as making breads from grains in the West. Although factories have taken over much of the production in the large cities, in the 1970’s there were around 38,000 tofu shops in Japan alone. Every village had a shop to supply its people with daily fresh tofu.
With the wonderful invention of the Soymilk Maker, every kitchen can be its own tofu shop. Fresh high protein foods and soy drinks can be made by anyone. If this is all new to you, learn how to make soymilk and discover a new investment into your health.
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