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With hungry greenies recognizing that the meat-based is not only cruel to animals and unhealthy for humans, but also a primary cause of climate change, the search for meat substitutes is on. Tempeh is a fermented food made by the controlled fermentation of cooked soybeans. The folks at Tempeh.info explain: "The tempeh fermentation by the Rhizopus mold binds the soybeans into a compact white cake. Tempeh has been a favorite food and staple source of protein in Indonesia for several hundred years. But tempeh is now rapidly becoming more popular all over the world as people look for ways to increase their intake of soybeans and isoflavones."
Of course, tofu another soy product has long hogged the spotlight as a vegan alternative to charred flesh, but TempehShop.com sez: "Tempeh is superior to all the other vegetarian alternatives and equally enjoyed by non-vegetarians alike." And they offer reasons like: "Unlike tofu, tempeh is a whole food - nothing is discarded from the soybeans - and totally natural - no chemical processing takes place like with TVP texturized vegetable proteinwhich is the main ingredient in most meat analogs." One more thing: it's pronounced tem-pay.
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