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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:39 PM Apr 2013

Is there any edamame not made in China/Asia?

Wegmans used to carry American grown edamame. Now it's imported from China. The edamame from Trader Joe's is from Thailand.

I thought that the U.S. was the biggest grower of soybeans in the world?

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Is there any edamame not made in China/Asia? (Original Post) onehandle Apr 2013 OP
Thailand? Great. Betsy Ross Apr 2013 #1
I avoid food products from Asia period. onehandle Apr 2013 #3
is there and end to this ? olddots Apr 2013 #2
You could grow your own. Chan790 Apr 2013 #4

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
3. I avoid food products from Asia period.
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:49 PM
Apr 2013

China is definitely the reddest flag, so to speak, but there are no regulations anywhere in Asia in practice.

We grow tons of soybeans here. Why can't I find American ones?

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
2. is there and end to this ?
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:46 PM
Apr 2013

it looks like just the beginning =we better start growing our own everything again.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
4. You could grow your own.
Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:52 PM
Apr 2013

Soya is like a weed, it'll grow anywhere as long as it has sunlight and water. I used to grow it in a cardboard shoebox on my windowsill when I lived in Yonkers. At one point, I had it growing out the window 15 floors up (I yanked it daily to keep it from affixing the wall, I used to reel it in and harvest the pods then drop it back out the window) until the guy two floors down complained because it was growing in his window.

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