Do not eat raw soybeans! They have a compound which inhibits trypsin. Heat will deactivate this inhibitor. I suppose the process used to make tofu gets around this too, but I am not familiar with the process.
"Trypsin inhibitors are chemicals that reduce the bio-availability of trypsin, an enzyme essential to nutrition of many animals, including humans." Wikipedia Dan -----Original Message----- From: CWFugitt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: CS>Vegetarianism, Indians Evening Dan, Thanks for the information. >>At 12:53 PM 5/29/2007, you wrote: > The main idea was to provide a high "quality" and affordable high > protein food. that 80% soybean and 20% corn gave a good mix of the > essential proteins. I understand that. Seems he had a scientific food, better than most of the food scientists make today. Lots of highly intelligent people in India. I have a close friend, a PhD, MD, and a research scientist from India. Some of his family invented some amazing processes. I have read that the best programmers came from India. I have grown soybeans and tried to eat them raw. They were irrigated and fed well. Somehow, the taste was not very good. I have eaten many roasted soybeans over the years also. Possibly they may not be an acceptable food, raw. Thanks again, Wayne -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
