soyfood

English

Etymology

From soy +‎ food.

Noun

soyfood (countable and uncountable, plural soyfoods)

1. Any processed food made from soybeans.
   • 1974, INTSOY Series, page 119:

     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.

   • 1999, Whole Earth:

     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.

   • 2007, Lin Yan, “A Meta-Analysis of Soyfoods and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women”, in Trends in Cancer Prevention, page 23:

     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.