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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Chapter 8 Soybean, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

Chapter 8: Soybean

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Answer Key
1. The soybean was first domesticated in Yellow River, Central China, about 5000 BCE.
2. The Yellow River Valley was the cradle of Chinese civilization.
3. Shennong is attributed to the cultivation of the soybean.
4. The first sacred grains were rice, wheat, barley, millet, and beans.
5. Soybeans weren't cultivated in other parts of the world because soybeans require a great deal of processing before they become edible.
6. No, humans cannot digest the protein of the soybean in a raw state.
7. Soymilk is used to make tofu.
8. The soybean is a crop that is drought resistant and deep rooting.
9. Corn is the top growing crop in the United States.
10. The soybean is the second growing crop in the United States.
11. Vegetable Oil is soybean marketed as cooking oil.
12. True, almost all of the soybeans grown in America are now of genetically modified varieties.
13. Tofu is a coagulant such as gypsum (calcium sulfate) to hot soy milk so that the proteins solidify as bean curd.

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