Why does Plenty help people adapt use of soy foods within their cultural practices?
Plenty is responding to requests for assistance in establishing soy and other food processing, marketing and nutrition education programs because they can help families, communities and small countries address nutrition and economic development needs. The economic, nutrition and health benefits of including organic, non-genetically engineered soybean foods within family diets are well documented. Soybeans contain 35-40% high quality protein, while other dry legumes have from 5-10% protein. Good soybeans now cost about $0.50/lb at our local stores. From one pound of soybeans you can make 1 gallon of soy milk that has the same amount of protein as one gallon of cow s/dairy milk costing $2.60, without the cholesterol and saturated fats. This shows that a family only has to pay 1/5 the price of cows milk to obtain equivalent nutrition from soy milk. Undernourishment (protein, minerals and vitamins) and lack of food security are major, growing problems within economically disadvantaged comm
