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Glycine max

Source: James A. Duke. 1983. Handbook of Energy Crops. unpublished. Seeds furnish one of the world's most important sources of oil and protein. Unripe seeds are eaten as vegetable and dried seeds eaten whole, split or sprouted. Processed they give soy milk, a valuable protein supplement in infant feeding which also provides curds and cheese. Soy sauce made from the mature fermented beans, and soy is an ingredient in other sauces. Roasted seeds used as a coffee substitute. The highly nutritious sprouts are readily consumed in Asia. Seeds yield an edible, semi-drying oil, used as salad oil and for manufacture of margarine and shortening. Oil used industrially in manufacture of paints, linoleum, oilcloth, printing inks, soap, insecticides, and disinfectants. Lecithin phospholipids obtained as a byproduct of the oil industry, used as a wetting and stabilizing agent in food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, leather, paint, plastic, soap, and detergent industries. Soy meal is very rich protein feeding stuff for livestock for which there is an increasing demand. Meal and soy bean protein used in manufacture of synthetic fiber, adhesives, textile sizing, waterproofing, fire-fighting foam and many other uses. Soy flour prepared from the whole beans, producing a full-fat flour with about 20% oil, that from mechanically-expressed meal gives low-fat flour with 5–6% oil; that prepared from solvent-extracted meal gives defatted flour with about 1% oil.

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