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Nov 15, 2008
Soy Yogurt May become Less "Musical"
Are you a soybean eater? Most vegetarians are. In fact, most people eat soybeans or their by-products every day. But lurking in products where soybeans are used whole – think whole cooked soybeans and tofu, not soy sauce or oil – are a few compounds that make eating soy an uncomfortable experience.
Soybeans are storehouses of carbohydrates that are indigestible to humans, in the forms of oligosaccharides and fibre. And when these compounds don’t digest, they hang around in your gut and wait for bacteria to come help with the process. One of bacterial by-products is gas.
But soy-aficionados may be able to find flatulence-free soy yogurt in the future. Food scientists are hard at work making soy yogurt fermented with special fungus that could decrease the gas-causing compounds in the final product.
References and Further Reading:
Flatulence-Free Soybeans Pass the Prototype Test (full-text available from pubmed.com)
McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking. 2004; Scribner, New York.
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