Originally from Asia, soya, just like beans or peas, is a leguminous plant. The soya plant is an erect, hairy plant from 0.6 to 1.5m (2 to 5 ft) in height, with large trifoliate leaves, small white or purple flowers, and short pods with one to four seeds...

Soya has been used as food in China since time immemorial. It was even believed that soya was consumed since the first Neolithic civilisations, but we had to wait for the archaeological discoveries of the last decades to authenticate these assumptions...

Non fermented soya foods & fermented oriental soya foods...

Briefly, there exist two ways of processing soya foods: soya foods made from whole soya beans and soya foods made from soya protein concentrates and soya protein isolates...