soy sauce? Well then, what is it? Is it safe? Are there just chemicals
inside these so called soy sauce bottles?
Is there dye in there? Is it something completely weird?
Is it safe to consume? OH MY GOODNESS! What is it!?!
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More often than not soy sauce made in the USA is wheat and not soy.
A few will have both wheat and 'soy protein' but most often it just
contains wheat. So wheat sauce is more of an ideal name.
Real authentic soy sauce is made from fermenting soy beans in salt.
It gets pressed and the first batches are often the darkest and the
strongest and best in taste. It gets pressed many more times after the
1st pressing and therefore the lighter hue and it's cheaper.
Premium soy sauce bottles are sometime over $10 for a small
bottle. It's sort of similar to extra virgin olive oil and plain olive oil.
The extra virgin olive oil that gets pressed first is the purest and
most expensive. If you see olive oil that is ridiculously cheap...
it's probably because it's the pressing of the excess of other pressings
and the leaves and branches.
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What's super ironic is that many stores sell what they call
'gluten-free' soy sauce which is REAL soy sauce because it is made
from soy beans rather than wheat. So.......... in the US,
we have to pay more for ACTUAL soy sauce (the gluten-free) one
which is often almost considered a gourmet or specialized soy sauce.
Go figure! Lastly, you know the soy sauce packets you get
when you order Chinese take-out? 9 times out of then- those
'soy sauce' packets don't even have the wheat in them.
Not all soy sauce packets BUT many of them are just caramel coloring
and corn syrup. Many don't even have salt in them either.
Always look at the labels prior to eating things so you know
what you are consuming!
Zestfully, Let's Cultivate Food......... day 20 of 31 days
