Soy sauce, a liquid seasoning brewed from beans, grains, and wheat bran.It has a reddish-brown color, a unique savory flavor, delicious taste, and helps stimulate appetite.It is a traditional Chinese condiment.Known as soy sauce or fermented bean sauce, it mainly consists of soybeans, starch, wheat, and salt, processed through fermentation and other procedures.Soy sauce contains complex components such as amino acids, sugars, organic acids, pigments, and flavorings besides sodium chloride.Primarily salty, it also has umami and aromatic flavors.It can enhance and improve the taste of dishes, add color, or change the appearance of them.The Chinese people mastered the brewing process thousands of years ago.Soy sauce generally comes in two types: light soy sauce for enhancing freshness; dark soy sauce for coloring.Dark soy sauce is milder and used to provide color.
