Soybeans

Soybeans are a food used in china for 5,000 years. They are a good source of protein. These lesgumes are used to make soy sauce and many meat and dairy substitutes.They are also used to feed cows. Soybeans are healthy and used for many things. More detail can be read in this [|wikipedia article]. Soybeans grow in warm weather and soil, and they are planted after the last frost. Soybeans are easy to grow. More detail [|here].

SOYBEANS are proven to be very healthy and have been cultivated for over 3,000 years. The soybean is also a very special legume which can be cultivated all year long and is probably the most wide spread in the world. It not only can be viewed as just having green seeds but can also differ from yellow black or brown. There are many other benefits besides soy beans having a lot protein and hardly any fat, such as: it lowers blood cholesterol in men, has helthy effects on blood platelets, and is also very healthy for women's bones and hearts.1

Soybeans can also have their oils exracted by an oil [|extracting machine]3 which is made specifically for soy beans. This oil can be used in many things such as: bio-diesel, candles, crayons or in many dairy products you might find at a supermarket. It is also used for vegetable oil and contains very special anti-oxidants which come from the soybean and stay in the oil while being extracted.4

(Legume is a seed of any various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case.)2

[|http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=79][|This also is another link for soy beans. This talks about the history of soy beans, and the benefits that it has because of the amount of protein.]

[|wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn] This is the link I used to find out what Legume

meant.[] This is the link to the picture GMO soybeans.jpg which is below the soy bean farm above.

[] Here is a video of a soybean harvest with good music.

[] 3. This is a video of the soybeans getting their oil extracted from them.

[] 4. here is the link that I used to find what soybean oil is used for and why it is extracted