Land of the Rising Soy

Japanese cuisine has always offered plant-based meat substitutes in dishes, in the form of tofu, seitan, natto and miso — and the category is growing within the world’s third-largest economy.

The soy industry has been overwhelmingly the beneficiary of an expanding alt-meat market, however, with pea, wheat and other plant-based proteins finding it tough to get traction, according to a new Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report released by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, “…