Soyinfo Center

Soyinfo Center, founded in August 1976 by William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi in California, is an organization dedicated to being the world's leading source of information on soy, especially soyfoods, new industrial uses, and history. It provides information in electronic database, online, and printed book formats. The center has published numerous books and maintains the SoyaScan database, which contains extensive records on soy-related documents, products, and interviews.

In October 1972, William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi began full-time research on soyfoods in Japan while writing The Book of Tofu. In August 1976, they founded SOY INFO CENTER (named Soyfoods Center until 31 Dec. 2006) in California. The center's mission is to be the world's leading source of information on soy, especially soyfoods, new industrial uses, and history, in electronic database, online and printed book formats. The center has published numerous books, including three popular books (The Book of Tofu, The Book of Miso, The Book of Tempeh), three production manuals, and 40 comprehensive bibliographies. The SoyaScan Database contains more than 111,000 records from 1100 B.C. to the present.

1. 1SoyInfo Center: Soy From A Historical Perspectivesoyinfocenter.com
2. 2A Comprehensive History of Soysoyinfocenter.com
3. 3About Us - Soyinfo Centersoyinfocenter.com