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What are the ingredients for brewing soy sauce?

There are water, non-transgenic soybeans, wheat flour, edible salt, sugar, yeast extract, food additives (sodium glutamate, disodium 5'- inosinate, disodium 5'- guanylate, sodium benzoate, sucralose.

Soy sauce is mainly made of soybean, wheat and salt through oil making and fermentation. The ingredients of soy sauce are very complicated. In addition to salt, there are many kinds of amino acids, sugars, organic acids, pigments and spices, mainly salty, umami and fragrant. It can increase and improve the taste of dishes, and it can also increase or change the color of dishes.

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How to buy soy sauce:

1, look at the color: the normal color of soy sauce should be reddish brown, and the color with good quality will be slightly darker, but if the color of soy sauce is too dark, it means that caramel color is added, and the aroma and taste will be worse. This soy sauce is only suitable for stewing.

2, depending on the use: soy sauce should be marked for eating or cooking, for food can be directly imported, high hygiene requirements, if it is used for cooking, can not be directly used to mix cold dishes.

3. Look at the ingredients: From the raw material list, we can see whether the raw material is soybean or defatted soybean, whether it is non-genetically modified, wheat or bran.