Patent ID: 6599543
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: A23C,A23Y

Abstract:
A process for preparing a fermented soybean milk comprising:contacting dehulled and dehypocotyl whole soybeans with warm or hot water; removing warm or hot water-soluble component from the soybeans; pulverizing the soybeans to make a slurry; removing insoluble component from the slurry to make a soybean milk, inoculating a lactic acid bacterium of the genus Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus bulgaricus and one strain selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus casei into the soybean milk, adding one or more saccharides which can be utilized by the lactic acid bacterium to the soybean milk, and fermenting the soybean milk to produce the fermented soybean milk.