Introducing Lac Food Grade Soybeans 15.6.2011
- 1. Introducing LAC ”Your supplier of choice for food grade soybeans”
- 3. Higher protein and lower oil content Large seeded and uniform size Clear hilum and yellow cotyledon Thin yellow seed coat Beany flavour Varieties: Vinton S03W4 S20G7 OAC Kent OAC Thamesville SWS 008 Food traits of TOFU varieties
- 4. Food traits of soymilk varieties Medium protein Clear/brown hilum High sugar Beany flavour Uniform size Street soya taste Canadian varieties: S03W4 OAC Wallace SWS 008 S18 R6
- 5. High sugar Clear hilum Good water uptake Medium protein Uniform size Bright seed coat Yellow cotyledon Varieties SQWH S18R6 S03W4 OAC Kent OAC Thamesville Food traits of MISO varieties
- 8. LAC President and soybean breeder
- 9. Contract Growers of IP soybeans
- 10. Agris Coops Research Plots
- 18. Why is Quality Important?
- 19. Briefing by our tour guide
- 20. Lint and hair check before entry
- 23. Soaking tank
- 24. Close up
- 27. Crates of tofu ready for delivery
- 28. Aburaage (fried tofu) line
- 30. Testing of new varieties
- 31. New Varieties are tested on product quality of soymilk and tofu
- 32. Product quality in terms of yield, protein solids, color, hardness & firmness of tofu using two different coagulants
- 33. Soymilk is separated from the slurry in a centrifugal extractor and tested for viscosity, sugars, and mouthfeel
- 34. Soymilk is heated, coagulant added and tofu is cooled in a waterbath
- 35. Testing of quality traits for color of soymilk and tofu
- 37. Instron texture system tests for firmness and hardness that relates to bite and mouthfeel
- 38. Maximum value reached before the tofu gel breaks measures the hardness of the tofu
- 39. Screening for protein Subunits and 11s/7s ratio
- 44. Cleaning Plant with Japanese Equipment
- 45. Farm deliveries to our facilities
- 46. QA staff taking samples
- 47. Protein, oil, moisture and GMO tests
- 48. Check protein and oil
- 50. Silo locations of IP soybeans
- 51. Silos for IP soybeans
- 57. Japanese-made “Harada” roller belt
- 61. Japanese-made “Satake” color sorter
- 62. “ Satake” electric-eye sorter
- 63. “ PacePacker” automatic bagger
- 68. Close-up of bulk loading
- 69. Bulk containers enroute to Japan
- 71. Containers enroute to customers
- 72. Trucks are probed And soybeans are tested Trucks QA Sample Self cleaning Receiving Conveyor Designated Variety Silo Self Cleaning Conveyor Leg Cleaner Surge Bin Cleaner QA Sample Gravity QA Sample Destoner Surge Bin Destoner QA Sample Plate Magnet Self Cleaning Gentle Handling Leg Satake Colour Sorter QA Sample Satake Colour Sorter Surge Bin Harada Belts QA Sample Harada Surge Bin Self Cleaning Gentle Handling Leg Automatic QA Sampler Self Cleaning Processing Belt Grate Magnet Rare Earth Processing Bin Pace Packer Bagger And Gate Magnet Tote Bag Loading Bulk Load Out QA Sample LAC Thamesville Quality Control Flow Chart Container QA Sample