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Soy milk

Also called soya milk, soymilk, soybean milk and soy juice

Soy milk is a beverage made by grinding soybeans and extracting their liquid. Cooks use it in baking and pair it with dried shrimp, scallion, cilantro, shallot, vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce, or chili oil.

  • Allergen: soy

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Drinks
Made from
Soy bean
Soy milk, packaged

Photo: Kjokkenutstyr · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use soy milk

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake

Cooking with it

Soy milk can curdle in hot acidic drinks such as coffee.

Goes well with

Around the world

Where soy milk is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses soy milk. Here is where they come from.

Origins

  1. The 1700s

    Street vendors sold soy milk in the 18th century.

  2. 1910 · France

    Li Yuying founded a soy milk dairy in France.

  3. 1917 · United States

    J.A. Chard began producing soy milk in New York City.

  4. 1929 · China

    By 1929, two Shanghai factories were selling soy milk in bottles.

  5. The 1950s · Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan

    Soy milk was marketed like a soft drink in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan during the 1950s.

  6. 1980 · Belgium

    Alpro began producing soy milk in Belgium.

On the table

Dishes made with soy milk

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Xian doujiang

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include soy milk.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: soy milk in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: soy
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
soy bean (extracted, ground)
Made from it
tofu (pressed)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What soy milk is called

Names in 65 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    leche de soja · jugo de soja · bebida de soja

  • French

    lait de soja · tônyû · boisson au soja

  • Italian

    latte di soia · bevanda di soia

  • Portuguese

    leite de soja

  • German

    Sojamilch · Sojadrink · Sojagetränk

  • Dutch

    sojamelk · sojadrank

  • Greek

    γάλα σόγιας

  • Turkish

    Soya sütü

  • Russian

    Соевое молоко

  • Polish

    napój sojowy · mleko sojowe

  • Arabic

    حليب الصويا

  • Persian

    شیر سویا

Show all 65 languages

  • Aragonese

    Leit de soya

  • Armenian

    Սոյայի կաթ

  • Asturian

    Bebida de soya

  • Bangla

    সয়াদুধ

  • Bashkir

    Соя һөтө

  • Basque

    Soja-esne

  • Bavarian

    Sojamilli

  • Belarusian

    соевае малако

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    соевае малако · соевы булён · соевы напой · соевы сок

  • Bulgarian

    Соево мляко

  • Cantonese

    荳奶

  • Catalan

    llet de soia · suc de soia · llet de soja

  • Central Kurdish

    شیری سۆیا

  • Chinese

    豆奶

  • Croatian

    Sojino mlijeko

  • Czech

    sojové mléko · sójové mléko · sojový nápoj

  • Danish

    sojamælk · sojadrik

  • Esperanto

    sojlakto

  • Estonian

    Sojapiim

  • Finnish

    Soijamaito

  • Galician

    bebida de soia · leite de soia

  • Gan Chinese

    豆奶

  • Hebrew

    חלב סויה

  • Hindi

    सोया दूध

  • Hungarian

    szójatej

  • Icelandic

    Sojamjólk

  • Igbo

    soy milk · soya milk · soymilk · soybean milk

  • Indonesian

    Susu kedelai

  • Irish

    bainne soighe · deoch shoighe

  • Japanese

    豆乳

  • Javanese

    Susu kedhelé · Susu kedelai

  • Korean

    두유

  • Lao

    ນ້ຳເຕົ້າຮູ້

  • Latin

    lac soiae · potio soiae

  • Latvian

    sojas piens

  • Lingua Franca Nova

    lete de soia

  • Lithuanian

    Sojų pienas · Sojos pienas

  • Macedonian

    соино млеко · млеко од соја

  • Malay

    Air kacang soya

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Tāu-leng

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    soyamelk

  • Romanian

    lapte din soia

  • Serbian

    Sojino mleko

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    豆奶

  • Slovak

    Sójové mlieko

  • Slovenian

    sojino mleko

  • Swahili

    Maziwa ya soya

  • Swedish

    sojamjölk · sojadryck

  • Telugu

    సోయా పాలు · సోయ్ పాలు

  • Thai

    น้ำเต้าหู้ · นมถั่วเหลือง · น้ำนมถั่วเหลือง

  • Traditional Chinese

    豆奶

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    豆奶

  • Ukrainian

    Соєве молоко

  • Urdu

    سویا دودھ

  • Vietnamese

    Sữa đậu nành

  • Welsh

    Llaeth soia · llaeth soia · Llaeth soi · llaeth soi

  • Western Panjabi

    سویا دُدھ

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q192199

Photos

Photo: Kjokkenutstyr · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons