What is the difference?

Also, what will lessen the "green" taste of soy flour?

I bought some soy flour. When I use a little to bread meat, it tastes fine. When I try to bake with it, I really don't like the "green" taste. IT tastes like a raw green bean to me. Guess that is basically what it is. LOL.

What ingredients will mask that raw bean taste?

For instance, Dr Atkins recipe for peanut butter chocolate cookies. They taste blah and green to me. I tried adding some more sweetener, some more cocoa, another egg, some flax meal, they looked good, like those devil's food cookies that I love and can't eat. The texture was great, but they still tasted green to me.

I made another batch and added some sugar free chocolate syrup, more vanilla, some regular flour, the texture wasn't quite as good, but still passable. However they still tasted green to me.

I have some soy protein powder, with no sweetener added. I have chocolate and vanilla flavors. They give me the burps, green tasting burps (sorry for being so graphic) but I can put up with that. I was wondering about substituting part of the flour with some protein powder?

I made Dr Atkins pancakes one time, before I had soy flour, using soy protein instead and they came out fine.

Yesterday I bought some barley flour, Will adding some of that take away the green taste? How about adding some cinnamon or other spices?

randysgrandma

Hi Sandra,
I NEVER use soy flour to cook/bake with. To me, it tastes bitter, instead of green...LOL! But, here is why it probably tastes *green*:

• soy flour = product made from dried(but not cooked) soybeans.
• soy powder(also known as soy milk powder) = product made from cooked soybeans.
• soy protein isolate(aka soy protein powder and SPI) = product made from just the protein which is isolated from the soybean.
• All of them are dry, floury products which act differently in recipes.

What to use in place of it? I'm sure some folks will chime in, but what I've found that works best for my taste buds, is a blend of Maggie's Cereal (dry) mixed with coconut flour. I use roughly 2/3 cup dry cereal mix with 1/3 cup coconut flour.

You might also want to try Wheat Protein Isolate 5000 or 8000, or Resistent Wheat Starch-75. Here's the Netrition Link where these products can be ordered.

Good luck!

hth

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The only thing soy I can stomach is black soybeans, cooked forever with lots and lots of seasonings. Soy flour, soy protein isolate, tofu, they are all just nasty tasting!

The coconut flour is good, just watch the carb count on it. You might also try whey protein powder. I use it for pancakes, with a bit of coconut flour. Not bad. Might not be too great for cookies, though. I've been known to use a combo of flaxseed meal and whey protein powder in my OMM.

I had some soy flour, and threw it out. I just couldn't stand the taste.

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I found a website with lots of recipes using protein powder. Most of them also use cocoa. The site is a low carb, low fat site. The recipes also use a lot of mozarella cheese in the recipes. They sound good.

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