Frequently Asked Questions
Is soya milk like cow milk?
To make it clear soya milk is not a real name, it is only a popular name. Soya doesnít produce milk, we obtain a liquid product by natural process of soya and water under certain technical conditions.
Soya milk properties are very interesting by their excellent nutritional value. Soya milk has a lot of nutritional virtues, but we recommend people to take advice and ask for further information to make nutritional list recording individual diet necessities.
Can babies and children cover a complete diet with soya milk?
There is a prolific bibliography pointing soya milk as an important nutritional element but soya milk can not take the place neither motherís milk nor cow milk.
It must be introduced in babiesí diet after 12 months (1 year) as a complement, not before.
Tofu or soya cheese which type of animal cheese resembles?
We canít associate tofu with different types of cheeses we already know because those has an animal origin.
Tofu is a total vegetal product. They resemble is in a similar process, it begins with soya milk (that is not milk) and under certain conditions is produced a flocculation and cottage cheese situation similar to the one is performed by real milk industry.
Extruded soy, how can we use it in daily food?
The common name is soya meat too. Texturized soya ORGAL produced by our company has the particularity of being parcially free-oil, so it must be considered diet.
Texturized soya is easily hydratable and mixed, because of that, can perfectly replace minced meat.
As an additional advantage texturized soya doesnít need cold or freeze to keep natural conditions and easily assimilate herb scents from condiments.
Is it true that soya causes indigestion?
Soya without proper heat treatment produces what we call ìindigestion effectî. It is important not to use soya without deactivated its urea sic activity. Orgal Products are in market properly deactivated in process.
Which is soya food nutritional value?
People must use soya deactivated
Soya grain is 20% oil, 40% proteins, rich in essential amino acid and from oil we obtain lecithin. It is also rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, A B vitamins are in the green bean and A B in dry bean, A B E F and X in the oil.
Some proteins contribute to the normal function of human organs and are important in children and babies growth. These proteins are classified as complete because they cover both functions and we can find then in animal origin products specially.
Soya has the privilege of complete proteins and in a very generous proportion.
Everybody needs proteins. Children with a deficient diet in complete proteins have a poor growth, without interest in playing or moving, poor performance at school (poor understanding and learning). They have also serious difficulties in rest and to sleep.
Adults with a poor diet in complete proteins are always tired, apathetic, without physical strength.
Because of all these reasons we insist in the importance of including products with rich proteins (complete) in daily food.
