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Soy good for you: it could be the perfect plant-based protein.

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I once had an editor who asked potential new employees, "If you were exiled to a deserted island, what two foods would you want delivered to you?" The fun answer was wine and chocolate. No one ever said soy, even though soy is perhaps one of nature's most perfect foods--especially when faced with long-term survival or, in a more likely case, long-term health.

Food and health journalists can find fault with almost any food: not enough of this, too much of that. So it's not often that you hear them use the word "perfect"--except with soy. It's a perfect plant-based protein with just less than 40 percent of calories from protein; it contains all eight amino acids; ...

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