Article: How Stuff Works: The simple story of tofu and soy milk

I made it through three decades of my life without ever hearing about soy milk. Even though soy milk has been around for more than 2,000 years, I had no inkling that it existed. And then, suddenly, the refrigerator was filled with soy milk. In fact, we started making soy milk ourselves at home.

Which prompts the obvious question: What is soy milk? To make soy milk, you start with dried soybeans. If you have never seen a soybean before, think of a dried black-eyed pea without the black eye. If you wanted to, you could grow soybeans in your backyard garden in the same way you grow green beans or peas, but most people buy the dried

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