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Also Known As soja bean • Glycine max • soya bean

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Soybean field
A worker pours liquid into a cloth-lined container in a rustic kitchen, with large trays of tofu curds setting in the foreground in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia.
Soybeans (Glycine max)
Golden soybean plants fill rolling fields in Nebraska, with a winding strip of green grass cutting through the crops under a partly cloudy sky.
A worker wearing a blue cap and mask stirs fermenting soybeans in a large clay vat, surrounded by rows of covered fermentation vessels outdoors in Rugao, Jiangsu, China.
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