Edamame

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Edamame
By Rishu Kalra
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Introduction
Edamame, additionally called vegetable soybean,
is specialty cultivars of soybeans that are
harvested at an immature stage and for direct
consumption by humans . Edamame beans are bred to
be giant and sweet, compared to agronomical
soybeans and their flavor has been represented as
flower-like and beany or buttery. Edamame
beans are versatile for his or her use in change
of state and might be eaten alone or as a element
of alternative dishes .
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Other names

• Edamame (pronounced eh-dah-MAH-may) may be a
  ancient Japanese vegetable that's growing in
  quality within the us. additionally known as
  sweet bean, edamame may be a nutritious and
  engaging vegetable or dish with a sweet, nutty
  flavor. the aim of this publication is to
  introduce edamame as a specialty crop and to
  explain a way to grow and vend.

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Appearance
Varieties additionally disagree by seed color and
size and by the color of pods and their puberty .
If you wish to promote edamame to Asian
customers, select a range having giant, light
beans bright green pods with grey or brownness
pubescence and 3 beans per pod. for patrons who
are unfamiliar with edamame, puberty color and
therefore the variety of beans per pod shouldn't
be issues they are doing not have an effect on
bean quality. In Japan, dark-seeded edamame is
employed as a dry bean at twelvemonth. If there
are Asian food stores in your space, you may take
into account growing a dark-seeded selection for
this niche market.
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Soil requirement
Edamame will grow in most Pacific Northwest
soils. The optimum soil pH for edamame is half
dozen.0. within the early fall of the year
preceding edamame planting, conduct a soil check
to work out your soils lime demand.
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Planting
Although edamame seeds are giant, they have a
tendency to be sensitive, and that they don't
emerge or grow well once field conditions are
inappropriately cold or wet.
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Timing
In the Pacific Northwest, you'll plant between
late April and mid-June. to confirm sensible
emergence, plant on well-drained soils once soil
temperatures are a minimum of 55F. Well-drained
soils heat up quicker, and that they are less
seemingly to possess soil borne diseases.
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Harvesting
Edamame have a slim harvest window of 3-7 days.
Decide once the beans have crammed inside the pod
and before the pod begins to yellow. All the
beans on one edamame plant mature at the
identical time. Once the beans are nearly
touching one another inside the pod, and
additionally the raw beans vogue mild and sweet,
the lump is ready to reap.
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Consumption
Edamame could be a fashionable food in Japan and
will increase in consumption of edible soybeans
within the North American nation are attributed
to their health advantages and flavor (Gaskell,
2001 Iwata, Sugiura, Shirahata, 1982).
Relative to soybeans used for different
functions, edamame-type soybeans are
characterized by having a transparent hilum,
comparatively massive size and distinctive
sensory characteristics. Edamame consumption has
been common in Asian cultures for several years
for instance, in Japan for four hundred years.
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