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Buying Tips

Commercial soya sauce is readily available in grocery stores in the condiment aisle or Asian food section. Tamari and shoyu are both sold in natural foods stores and in Asian markets, sometimes in bulk.

Varieties

While true tamari or shoyu is an aged product, most of the commercial soya sauce sold in the United States is a nonfermented synthetic product made from defatted soyabean meal and grains mixed with chemicals. Real aged tamari or shoyu has a different flavour than commercial, synthetic soya sauce. In Japan, synthetic soya sauce is not recognised by the government, which allows five different types of soya sauce to be labelled as shoyu. Among the synthetic brands, reduced-sodium soya sauce is available.

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