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Yuba

Legumes and Legume Products

Yuba, also called tofu skin, fupi or beancurd sheet, is a food made from soybeans that forms naturally during soy milk production: when soy milk is heated to 80 to 90 degrees Celsius in an open shallow pan, a film of soy protein and lipid forms on its surface, and these films are collected and dried into yellowish sheets. It is technically distinct from tofu itself because it forms without a coagulant, though it shares a similar texture and flavor, and its use was first documented in Chinese written records in the sixteenth century. It is widely used fresh, fermented or dried in Chinese, Korean and Japanese cuisine.

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Allergen
Soybeans 1
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Carries Allergen

Soybean, Ingredients

Entity-backed identity for the allergen value this ingredient already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a ingredient entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

Sources
1. Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 Annex II, Substances or Products Causing Allergies or Intolerances
Annex II identity match by ingredient/standard-recipe composition
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