soy

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Worchesterchire sauce has regular soy which is not so gluten free friendly.

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  1. noun The soybean.
  2. noun Soy sauce.

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  • Worchesterchire sauce has regular soy which is not so gluten free friendly. —  PW FULL RSS FEED
  • The menu explains that the restaurant uses 100 percent natural Angus short ribs, marinated in Korean soy sauce, garlic and sugar (as well as fruit juice and sesame oil, for two days, according to Kim). —  Latest News
  • When it's consumed moderately the soy is a perfect alternative for red meat. —  www.Perublogs.com Todos los Blogs del Perú
  • Or you catch the scent of broth - soy, anise, chilies, beef - which draws you inexorably into the dining room, where your intrepidity is rewarded with chewy wheat noodles, a rich and clean-tasting soup and hunks of meat that shred juicily at the slightest pressure from your tongue. —  Alanat News
  • But no till generally involves industrial farming of genetically engineered soy, and without tilling, more toxic chemical weed killers are used. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Dutch soja, soya, from Japanese shōyu, from Chinese (Mandarin) jiàngyóu, soy sauce : jiàng, soy paste + yóu, sauce.

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  1. Also sooja; = French soy, soui = G. Swedish Danish soja (New Latin soja, soya); from Japanese si-yan, Chinese shi-yu, soy.
 

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