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Soy Products Review
Soy Pudding
 I'm not a big pudding eater, but I decided to give this stuff a try. From the outside it look a little chunky, which is a little off-putting, but once opened up it looks fine.
Every once in awhile I get an urge for pudding, and when I try to satisfy that urge with Jell-o Pudding cups I always regret buying the stuff. Its overpowering sweetness comes from high fructose corn syrup, and the nasty chemical taste comes from the artificial colors and flavors. That's why I'm glad someone came out with this soy-based pudding. It's pretty darn good!
Don't get too excited, though. It's just pudding in a cup. But if you get the urge, and you don't feel like whipping up a batch of home made pudding, you can feel good about eating this stuff. It's entirely organic and certified vegan, and yes, it tastes good. Good not great. Also comes in a chocolate flavor.
Soy Milk Rundown
Reviews of Nature's Perfect Food by Jonah Ewell
When I lived in Long Beach (California), it was a short drive to Little Saigon and the biggest concentration of Vietnamese people outside of Ho Chi Minh City. There I could find an awesome array of fresh soy products, including soy milk (still warm in the bottles) and all different varieties of tofu, from soft to hard, all made that day. That was when I first started drinking soy milk regularly.
But I had been drinking soy milk before then, off and on, since I was a kid. Sometimes we'd go out for Chinese
breakfast, and get you tiao (puffy, greasy Chinese donuts) and dunk them in hot bowls of doujiang. Mmmm... So
to me, the best soy milk is the one that tastes most like you got it at the restaurant.
Yeosoy Unsweetened
Pluses: Absolutely none!
Minuses: Disgusting! Filthy! Awful! Horrible! Do not on ever buy this soy milk! I should have known when
it wasn't refrigerated. But it was Chinese, and available close to my apartment, so I thought I would give it a try.
Feh! Foul! What makes this soy milk so bad? It's got a nasty chemical taste to it, no doubt from buckets-ful of preservatives.
I tried it at room temperature and heated, and it nearly made me retch both times. On the bottle it says "sterilized
for your protection" - by which they mean "contains incredible amounts of metallic-tasting carcinogens." Stay away.
West Soy Organic Unsweetened Soy Milk
Pluses:As bad as Yeosoy is, West Soy totally made up for it. No sweeteners, no thickeners, no preservatives. Just organic soy beans
and filtered water. Very tasty.
Minuses: A little thin - I like my soy milk a little thicker.
Zen Don
Pluses: Made with organic soy beans, comes in plain, chocolate, vanilla, and cappucino flavors. Uses the familiar orange juice carton sizes. An easy substitute for cow milk - it wouldn't seem out of place on your cereal or in your coffee. Available at D'Agostinos, Food Emporium, Gristedes, and many other supermarkets.
Minuses: Uses carageenan as a thickener. The "plain" flavor tastes a little sweet to me. Their slogan says: "Something rare - soy milk that tastes good!" which implies that regular soy milk tastes bad. Maybe to some people, but I like unsweetened soy milk. Tacky Orientalism comes in the form of customer-submitted haiku ("an ancient Asian art form") on the side panels and mystical interpretation courtesy of "Su-lin, our magic panda." Come on people, you can do better than that.
Kwong Hop Tofu Inc.
Pluses: Got that authentic doujiang flavor. No cheesy Orientalism. Comes in handy chug sizes as well as family size. No flavors added, leaving you free to make it salty or sweet. Heat it up and it tastes just like what you get at restaurants.
Minuses: You have to go to Chinatown to get it. No nutritional info, despite FDA regulations. Definitely not organic.
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