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Azumaya (150,000 lb/week, up 12% over 1986, 90-95% to<br />
supers, $0.69-79/lb), Hinoichi (125,000 lb/week, growing<br />
at 5% per year; $1.00/lb), Morinaga (sales have more<br />
than doubled since Oct. 1984 <strong>and</strong> are close behind those<br />
<strong>of</strong> Azumaya <strong>and</strong> Hinode, 50% in supers, 45% in Oriental<br />
markets, 5% in natural/health food stores, $1.43/lb), Quong<br />
Hop (50,000 lb/week, mostly to natural/health food stores).<br />
This study does not attempt to estimate the size <strong>of</strong> the<br />
U.S. t<strong>of</strong>u market, but does forecast slow, steady growth. “In<br />
summary, overall sales <strong>of</strong> plain t<strong>of</strong>u in the near future should<br />
look very much like the recent past–slow <strong>and</strong> steady growth<br />
at approximately 10% a year. More small companies will go<br />
out <strong>of</strong> business or will be absorbed by larger manufacturers,<br />
<strong>and</strong> larger companies will increase the size <strong>of</strong> their markets<br />
from local to regional <strong>and</strong> from regional to national.”<br />
Address: Soyatech, Bar Harbor, Maine.<br />
705. Tribune (Lea, Minnesota). 1987. U <strong>of</strong> M studies<br />
<strong>soy</strong>bean uses [Dr. William Breene, University <strong>of</strong> Minnesota,<br />
St. Peter Creamery, <strong>and</strong> Soy Supreme]. July 6.<br />
• Summary: Breene has been testing a <strong>soy</strong>bean powder<br />
called Soy Supreme. It can be reconstituted into many<br />
potential products, such as <strong>yogurt</strong>-type <strong>and</strong> frozen dessert<br />
products. To make the powder, <strong>soy</strong>beans are heated as they<br />
are ground. The hulls are also ground <strong>and</strong> added back. Then<br />
they add water to it to get 19% solids, spray dry it, <strong>and</strong> grind<br />
it back into a powder. The result is a full-fat <strong>soy</strong>bean product<br />
with all the fi ber in it. They make an<strong>other</strong> version, which is<br />
dehulled. A Chinese food scientist, Shan Wen Lin, who just<br />
received his PhD from Reading Univ. in Engl<strong>and</strong>, will do<br />
<strong>soy</strong>bean utilization research with Breene for a year. “There is<br />
more <strong>and</strong> more talk <strong>of</strong> tagging the price <strong>of</strong> <strong>soy</strong>beans to their<br />
protein content.” Address: Minnesota.<br />
706. McCoy, Frank. 1987. Mr. Yogurt takes a chance on t<strong>of</strong>u<br />
[Juan E. Metzger <strong>and</strong> J<strong>of</strong>u]. Business Week. July 20. p. 115.<br />
• Summary: A good <strong>history</strong> <strong>of</strong> Metzger’s work with <strong>yogurt</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> Tomsun Foods. In 1942 Metzger, his father, <strong>and</strong> an<strong>other</strong><br />
partner founded Dannon Yogurt in New York. When Beatrice<br />
Foods bought Dannon in 1959 for $3 million they kept<br />
Metzger on as president. Now this marketing whiz, who<br />
is still youthful in his thinking, “has taken on the task <strong>of</strong><br />
carving out a sizeable market for a food people love to hate–<br />
t<strong>of</strong>u. It’s only a matter <strong>of</strong> time, he fi gures, before his new<br />
t<strong>of</strong>u snack, J<strong>of</strong>u, will sweep the country.”<br />
“Tomsun’s development costs helped produce a $1.5<br />
million loss on $3.1 million sales last year. Although<br />
Metzger has gotten J<strong>of</strong>u into such big chains as New York’s<br />
D’Agostino Supermarkets Inc., he recently had to shelve<br />
a $1.5 million ad campaign for lack <strong>of</strong> money. So he’s<br />
concentrating most <strong>of</strong> his marketing muscle on getting J<strong>of</strong>u<br />
into more dairy cases. He expects Tomsun to double sales<br />
this year <strong>and</strong> to become pr<strong>of</strong>i table by 1988. Metzger is once<br />
again banking on America’s preoccupation with health. The<br />
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slogan for J<strong>of</strong>u could well be his own: ‘Go beyond <strong>yogurt</strong>.’”<br />
A photo shows Juan Metzger, age 68, holding his 3-yearold<br />
son, Joe, on his shoulders. Beside them is his second<br />
wife. He didn’t have to look far for a product name for J<strong>of</strong>u.<br />
Metzger named J<strong>of</strong>u after his son.<br />
707. Product Name: Le Yogurt (Dairy-Based S<strong>of</strong>t-Serve<br />
Frozen Yogurt Dry Mix).<br />
Manufacturer’s Name: Brightsong Foods.<br />
Manufacturer’s Address: 100-A Poultry St. (P.O. Box<br />
2536), Petaluma, CA 94953.<br />
Date <strong>of</strong> Introduction: 1987. July.<br />
Ingredients: Dairy products.<br />
How Stored: Frozen.<br />
New Product–Documentation: LaBell. 1987. Food<br />
Processing. May. “T<strong>of</strong>u & T<strong>of</strong>u Products.” Talk with Richard<br />
Rose. 1988. Feb. 15. This is a dairy product, containing no<br />
<strong>soy</strong>.<br />
708. Product Name: [Soya Quark (Fermented Soy<br />
Cheese)].<br />
Foreign Name: Sojaquark.<br />
Manufacturer’s Name: Christian Nagel T<strong>of</strong>umanufaktur.<br />
Manufacturer’s Address: Osdorfer L<strong>and</strong>strasse 4, D-2000<br />
Hamburg 52, West Germany. Phone: 040/89 49 37.<br />
Date <strong>of</strong> Introduction: 1987. July.<br />
Ingredients: Incl. <strong>soy</strong>a <strong>milk</strong> <strong>and</strong> lactic acid starter.<br />
New Product–Documentation: Form fi lled out by Christian<br />
Nagel. 1988. Product introduced July 1987. They now make<br />
240 kg/week.<br />
Talk with Christian Nagel. 1990. May 4. This product<br />
was similar to a dairy quark, which is like a s<strong>of</strong>t cream<br />
made from cultured cow’s <strong>milk</strong>. It was made by fermenting<br />
<strong>soy</strong><strong>milk</strong> with a quark culture (named Probat) for 24 hours.<br />
It was sold in little cups. It was like a <strong>soy</strong> <strong>yogurt</strong> but was<br />
different in that the cultures <strong>and</strong> consistency were different.<br />
He no longer makes this product.<br />
709. INTSOY Newsletter (Urbana, Illinois). 1987. INTSOY<br />
develops new techniques for commercial <strong>soy</strong><strong>milk</strong> processing.<br />
No. 36. July. p. 1-2.<br />
• Summary: Program leader is Alvin I. Nelson. Research<br />
associate is Sing-Wood Yeh. The technique is basically the<br />
Illinois Process with the okara fi ltered out using a continuous<br />
roller extractor, <strong>and</strong> no homogenization step. Whole dry<br />
<strong>soy</strong>beans are cleaned, sized, dried in a forced air oven <strong>and</strong><br />
split while still hot in a dehuller roller. The hulls are removed<br />
using an air blower. The cotyledons are then blanched in<br />
boiling water containing a little sodium bicarbonate, drained,<br />
ground in a mill with boiling water. The slurry is fi ltered in<br />
the roller extractor <strong>and</strong> cooked. Problems with the original<br />
Illinois Process were “chalky mouth feel,” “throat drying<br />
effect” (from the okara), <strong>and</strong> expensive homogenizers. The<br />
resulting <strong>soy</strong><strong>milk</strong> can be used to make a cultured <strong>soy</strong> <strong>yogurt</strong>,