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The soybean is an erect leguminous plant, up to 1 m high. A fast growing herbaceous annual, it is native to Asia but currently grown worldwide.
Fruits are two or three-seeded pods containing yellow, rounded seeds with a hilum colour ranging from yellow to black .
Soybean is primarily an oilseed containing about 20% oil. Soybean is the largest oilseed crop. The extraction of oil results in a high-protein cake that can be further processed into a variety of products for feed and food uses. While soybean used to be grown primarily for its oil.
Soybean is used as food in tropical Africa and Asia.Western countries are a new market for soya food.
It is useful to make flour, milk, tofu and tofu-like products. It may be roasted and eaten as a snack, or fermented to make tempeh, miso, yuba and soy sauce.