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UK
/sˈɔɪɐ/
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[ US /ˈsɔɪə/ ]
[ US /ˈsɔɪə/ ]
NOUN
- erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
- the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein)
How To Use soya In A Sentence
- Tofu, essentially coagulated soya milk, is a good source of protein, and may also contain useful quantities of nutrients such as iron, calcium and some B vitamins.
- Keeping to a Japanese theme, I'm using soba noodles and tamari soya sauce - the real stuff, no additives or caramel, simply soya beans, salt and water.
- You need 25g of soya protein a day, which means having at least three soya food servings a day. The Sun
- Regulators could demand the sales of soya bean, cotton and canola seed assets. Times, Sunday Times
- Other food sources include soya beans, chicken and salmon. The Sun
- Nutrient expert thinks, teenager period should nurturance is drunk " macrobian soya-bean milk " habit, this has profit greatly to preventing cardiovascular disease in the future.
- Top offending foods identified were, in alphabetical order, barley, beef, chicken, lamb, potato, rice, soya and wheat.
- The prices of jute, potato, soyabean, cashew nut, pepper, rubber, green tea leaves, coconut, groundnut and coffee have fallen sharply.
- Mothers who use soya-based formulas are in most cases strict vegetarians or vegans avoiding baby foods made with cow's milk.
- Oilseeds often contain toxic or undesirable factors such as gossypol in cottonseed, trypsin inhibitor in soya beans and cyanogenetic glucosides in linseed, whereas groundnuts have been noted as being particularly vulnerable to mycotoxin formation. Chapter 6
