What are the main ingredients in soy sauce?

The main ingredients in soy sauce are soybeans, salt and wheat.

Soy sauce is a traditional Chinese condiment. It is a liquid condiment brewed from soybeans, wheat and bran. It is reddish-brown in color, has a distinctive soy sauce aroma, and has a delicious taste that helps promote appetite.

Soy sauce is evolved from the sauce, as early as three thousand years ago, China's Zhou Dynasty, there are records of making sauce. The invention of soy sauce brewing by ancient Chinese laborers was purely accidental.

The earliest soy sauce was made from fresh meat marinated in a process similar to that of today's fish sauce, and because of its excellent flavor it was gradually spread to the public, and later it was found to be made from soybeans, which was similar in flavor and cheaper, and was then widely consumed.

Expanded Information

The sweetness in soy sauce comes mainly from the hydrolysis of the starch in the raw material by Aspergillus amylase, which generates glucose and maltose; followed by the hydrolysis of proteins, which generates the sweetness of the free amino acids, glycine, alanine, threonine, and proline; and the hydrolysis of glycerol, which generates a slight sweetness in the fermentation process.

Soy sauce can be divided into soy sauce and soy sauce

Soy sauce is a kind of soy sauce, is soybean or black beans, flour as the main raw material, artificial access to the seeds of the song, through the natural exposure to the sun, fermentation and become, the color is lighter and reddish-brown.

Soy sauce is used for general cooking and has a salty flavor. Soy sauce is mainly used for seasoning and is light in color, so it is used more when making general stir-fry or cold dishes.

Lao Soya Sauce is a richly colored soy sauce made by adding caramel on top of the soy sauce, which is suitable for enhancing the color of meat. Soy sauce is an indispensable condiment in cooking. Adding soy sauce to a dish can improve the taste and add color.

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