Miso
Also called Soya paste and Soybean paste
Miso is a condiment paste made with soybeans and salt, sometimes with rice or barley. Cooks use it raw, in marinades and pickles, or to season dishes, and pair it with rice.
- Allergen: soy
About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details
- Category
- Condiments & seasonings
- Cooked most in
- Asia
- Top country
- Japan
- Dishes
- 3 in the catalogue
- Energy
- 198 kcal per 100 g
Photo: D-Kuru · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
In the kitchen
How to use miso
Typical ways to cook or use it
- Marinade
- Pickle
- Raw
- Season
Made from
- soy bean
- table salt
- rice (sometimes)
- barley (sometimes)
Cooking with it
Add miso to hot dishes near the end of cooking.
Goes well with
Shopping
Choosing and storing miso
Keeping it
- Fridge · opened
- Sold as
- Paste
Nutrition
What 100 g of miso holds
Protein 29%Fat 14%Carbohydrate 57%of the macronutrients by weight
| Energy | 198 kcal · 828 kJ |
|---|---|
| Protein | 13 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| of which saturated | 1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| of which sugars | 6.2 g |
| Fibre | 5.4 g |
| Sodium | 3,728 mg |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Potassium | 210 mg |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 57 mg |
| Iron | 2.5 mg |
| Magnesium | 48 mg |
| Zinc | 2.6 mg |
| Vitamin A (RAE) | 4 µg |
| Folate | 19 µg |
| Vitamin B12 | 0.08 µg |
Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 172442), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.
Around the world
Where miso is cooked
On the table
Dishes made with miso
Kakegawa imojiru
Japan
Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include miso.
Good to know
Diet and allergens: miso in detail
- Allergens
- Contains: soy
Around the world
What miso is called
Spanish
Miso
French
miso · Misso
Italian
miso
Portuguese
missô · Missô
German
Miso
Dutch
miso · misopasta
Greek
Μίσο
Turkish
Miso
Russian
мисо
Polish
Miso
Arabic
ميسو
Persian
میسو
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ميسو
apc
ميسو
Azerbaijani
Miso şorbası
Bangla
মিসো
Basque
Miso
Belarusian
міса
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
міса
Brazilian Portuguese
missô
Bulgarian
Мисо
Burmese
မီဆို
Cantonese
麵豉
Catalan
miso
Chinese
味噌 · 面豉 · 麵豉
Czech
miso
Danish
miso
Egyptian Arabic
ميسو
Esperanto
misoo · miso
Estonian
miso
Filipino
Miso
Finnish
miso
Galician
Miso
Hakka Chinese
Mí-chiòng
Hebrew
מיסו
Hungarian
miszo
Indonesian
Miso
Japanese
味噌 · 麦味噌 · 米味噌 · 調合みそ
Javanese
Miso
Korean
미소 · 왜된장
Lithuanian
Sojų pasta · Miso
Luxembourgish
Miso
Malay
Miso
Malayalam
മിസോ
Marathi
मिसो
Min Nan Chinese
Miso
Norwegian Bokmål
miso
Norwegian Nynorsk
miso
Punjabi
ਮੀਸੋ
ryu
味噌 · んす · んーす
Scottish Gaelic
Miso
Serbian
Мисо
Simplified Chinese
味噌
Simplified Chinese (China)
味噌
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
味噌
Slovenian
miso
Swedish
miso
Thai
มิโซะ · มิโสะ
Traditional Chinese
味噌
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
味噌
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
味噌
Ukrainian
Місо
Urdu
میسو
Uzbek
Miso
Vietnamese
Miso
Western Panjabi
میسو
Wu Chinese
味噌
Sources and credits
Data
- GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
- USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
- Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
- Wikimedia Commons: photos
- Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata item: Q235169
Photos
Photo: D-Kuru · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons