Finding Good Things to Drink

My quest to find healthful beverages has led me to investigate making beer and wine, cow's milk, soda, and now soy milk. That picture of a package of frozen soy beans is a bit misleading as my research tells me that you cannot make soy milk from fresh (or fresh frozen) soy beans.

"Fresh green soybeans are not mature enough to have enough protein to make milk. Mature soybeans are yellow and hard even on vines."

That's what the folks at Sanlinx, Inc. in Tennessee said. They sell items for making soy milk. They helped me find a source for bulk soybeans and a specific type of soybean to buy, Laura soybeans. The order will probably be here by next Friday.

Here's the knot. Is soy milk a milk or a juice? What makes a milk, a milk?

til tomorrow....