The Magical Textured Soy Protein: A Nutritional Transformation from Plant to Table

In the trend of pursuing a healthy and delicious diet, textured soy protein is quietly emerging as a rising star in the food industry. You may have tasted it in vegan meats and snack foods, but you might not be fully aware of its magical transformation process. The extraction and processing of textured soy protein can be regarded as a delicate "magic trick". First of all, high-quality soybeans are carefully selected and undergo pretreatment processes such as cleaning and peeling to remove impurities and bean skins. Subsequently, an advanced leaching process is adopted, using a specific solvent to extract the oil from the soybeans, resulting in soybean meal. Then, the soybean meal is ground and made into a slurry, and the pH value is adjusted. After that, it is extruded and formed under high temperature and high pressure. Through this series of complex processes, the originally ordinary soybean raw materials are splendidly transformed into textured protein with a unique struct...