Soybeans are either sold whole or used as an ingredient in a wide range of foods in the form of flour, meal, protein, oil or lecithin.
Soybeans also form a major proportion of stock feed in Australia.
Soybeans derivatives are permitted to be used in well over half of the processed food and beverage products on Australian supermarket shelves. Australia is a net importer of soybeans, relying on imports for more than half of our soybean needs. We currently buy around 100,000 tonnes of soybeans per year mainly from the world's largest producer, the United States. Roundup Ready Soybeans are a new variety of soybean developed by the Monsanto Corporation. Roundup' is essentially non-toxic and does not bioaccumulate in animals.