Soyfood

Jin-ling stated that although there is a long tradition of soyfood use in Сhina, China can acauire a great deal of knowledge from Japan.

In the 1960s, “Baco-Bits," made from soy-fatted flour, became America's first commercially successful industrial soyfood product, a cheap non-meat substitute for bacon, easily used in various dishes.

Food frequency questionnaire was the method of dietary assessment in these studies, and soy intake was assessed in one of the three ways, soyfoods (as a group of foods or a specific type of soyfoods, e.g. bean curd), soy protein, or soy isoflavones.