Where to find soya beans?!
Where to find soya beans?
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The soybean (U.S.) or soya bean (UK) (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to Eastern Asia. It is an annual plant that may vary in growth, habit, and height. It may grow prostrate, not growing higher than 20 cm (7.8 inches), or even stiffly erect up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) in height. The pods, stems, and leaves are covered with fine brown or gray pubescence. The leaves are trifoliate (sometimes with 5 leaflets), and the leaflets are 6-15 cm (2-6 inches) long and 2-7 cm (1-3 inches) broad. The leaves fall before the seeds are mature. The small, inconspicuous, self-fertile flowers are borne in the axil of the leaf and are white, pink or purple. The fruit is a hairy pod that grows in clusters of 3-5, with each pod 3-8 cm (1-3 inches) long and usually containing 2-4 (rarely more) seeds 5-11 mm in diameter.
Like corn and some other crops of long domestication, the relationship of the modern soybean to wild-growing species can no longer be traced with any degree of certainty. It is a cultural variety (a cultigen) with a very large number of cultivars. However, it is known that the progenitor of the modern soybean was a vine-like plant that grew prone on the ground.
Beans are classed as pulses whereas soybeans are classed as oilseeds. The word "soy" is derived from the Japanese word 犷油 (shoyu) (soy sauce/soya sauce).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soya_bean...
Whole Foods, Treasure Island, any health food store. Ithink they are also called edamame.
Soya bean is cultivated extensively in south Asian countries and U.S.A. In India soya bean cultivation is introduced in 1977. In our country it is cultivated mainly in North Indian sub Himalayan belt. Even though it is the cheapest high quality vegetable protein, we are yet to exploit its full potential. Mainly the Japanese and Chinese consume it as the Chinese gourmet. Chinese create their delicious works of art with soya. In India people started liking this pulse mainly among the vegetarians. It is a boon to the vegetarians. Soya beans contains the highest protein among the pulses. Other than the whole pulse, lots of processed Soya products are available in the market. They include soya milk, soya flour, Soya curd and tofu (soya paneer).
any where(i think)
Health food and organice food stores. Look in your local yellow pages and search the web.
They are delicious, by the way
I found them in Wikipedia at: http://wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soya_bean...
How does this belong in this category?