Uganda starts producing soy milk
Jan 20, 2011
Uganda’s food production industry has achieved a new milestone with the introduction of milk produced from soy seeds.
BY DAVID SSEMPIJJA
Uganda’s food production industry has achieved a new milestone with the introduction of milk produced from soy seeds.
The milk is being produced by SESACO, a local firm that has been turning soy seeds into a multiplicity of consumable products.
According to the company managing director, Charles Nsubuga, the soy milk production technology was learnt through years of training at different soy development institutes and food producing companies in American.
“We have successfully been producing different products from soy seeds, but our latest breakthrough is the production of soy milk and meat, whose local market demand has been growing steadily,†Nsubuga said during the launch of company outlets at the new Mukwano and Equatorial shopping malls.
The two products deliver more nutritional value to the consumers than those contained in animal products, he added.
Coming in liquid and powdered forms, soy milk has attracted people allergic to animal milk.
It is enriched with nutritive chemicals necessary for prevention of cancer and heart and bone diseases.
Nsubuga said SESACO staff had been trained in value addition at the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health and at the University of Illinois inter-soy department.
Uganda’s food production industry has achieved a new milestone with the introduction of milk produced from soy seeds.
The milk is being produced by SESACO, a local firm that has been turning soy seeds into a multiplicity of consumable products.
According to the company managing director, Charles Nsubuga, the soy milk production technology was learnt through years of training at different soy development institutes and food producing companies in American.
“We have successfully been producing different products from soy seeds, but our latest breakthrough is the production of soy milk and meat, whose local market demand has been growing steadily,†Nsubuga said during the launch of company outlets at the new Mukwano and Equatorial shopping malls.
The two products deliver more nutritional value to the consumers than those contained in animal products, he added.
Coming in liquid and powdered forms, soy milk has attracted people allergic to animal milk.
It is enriched with nutritive chemicals necessary for prevention of cancer and heart and bone diseases.
Nsubuga said SESACO staff had been trained in value addition at the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health and at the University of Illinois inter-soy department.