Soya Bean

• The soybean plants grow thick and bushy with wide round leaves and colourful flowers that produce their seeds in pods like other beans
• Soybeans are planted in the spring when the ground is warm and are harvested in the fall after they dry out and turn brown
• A combine harvester cuts the stem of the soybean plant just above the ground then separates the seeds from the plant and their pods
• Young soybeans that are harvested green in the summer are called edamame and are often served in asian restaurants in the shell with some sea salt