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worldwide to make soymilk commercially. The product
was canned and the beany fl avor removed by live steam
processing.
1931–Madison Foods of Madison, Tennessee, introduces
Madison Soy Milk–the world’s earliest known soymilk to be
fortifi ed with calcium and the second commercial soymilk
product made by Seventh-day Adventists in the USA.
Madison Foods is a company run by students and faculty
within Madison College, a pioneering work/study school.
1936 Jan.–Dr. Harry W. Miller and his son, Willis,
start making Vetose Soya Milk, sold in natural or chocolate
fl avors in sterilized half pint or quart bottles at their Vetose
Nutritional Laboratories in Shanghai, China. Dr. Miller is
a Seventh-day Adventist physician, a student of Dr. John
Harvey Kellogg, and a medical missionary living in China.
The world’s fi rst “soy dairy,” this company also made soy
ice cream and Acidophilus Vetose (a cultured soya milk)–
both launched in Jan. 1936. But Japan was invading China.
Within months after the soy-milk business began booming, a
Japanese bomb blew up the soy dairy.
1936 June–Sobee, the world’s earliest known branded
soy-based infant formula, is launched by the American Soya
Products Corp. of Evansville, Indiana.
1939 autumn–Dr. Harry W. Miller, forced by the war
in China to return to the USA, starts making soymilk at Mt.
Vernon, Ohio, in a large brick plant which he and coworkers
built from the ground up. The fi rst two products were canned
liquid soymilk (made in a pressure cooker and fortifi ed with
vitamins and minerals) and malted soymilk (Soy-A-Malt).
Pressure from the powerful U.S. dairy industry and the
USDA convinced Miller not to call his product ‘soymilk,’ so
he latinized the name to Soya Lac. This term was fi rst used
in late 1939 for Miller’s fi rst American soymilk.
1940 March–K.S. Lo, founder and managing director of
the Hong Kong Soya Bean Products Co. Ltd. starts to make
soymilk in Hong Kong. His product, originally named Vita
Milk (Wai-ta-nai in Chinese) was fortifi ed with calcium, codliver
oil, and vitamins, and sold in milk bottles, primarily
as a nutritious, affordable beverage for refugees. In June
1940 the product was renamed Sunspot, and in 1953 it was
renamed Vitasoy. Continued.
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