Soybean
Glycine max
Soybean, the Da Dou of Chinese kitchens, whose protein and isoflavones pare circulating cholesterol and keep glucose handling even from one meal to the next.
What the evidence shows
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Soybean isoflavones and fiber flatten the sugar rise that follows food and lower the fats riding in the blood — steady fuel, and less of the afternoon slump.
Cells starved of oxygen and glucose survived better once black soybean pigment switched their internal recycling on.
Across ten randomized controlled trials in 675 postmenopausal women, soy isoflavones reduced vaginal dryness.
Where it appears
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