Organic Barley & Brown Rice Miso Paste for Umami Lovers, Made in Japan, 12.1 oz

Founded in 1968, Eden Foods is the oldest natural food company in the United States. Its mission is Creation and Maintenance of Purity in Food. The EDEN brand offers an authentic alternative to commercial food, providing the purest and best-tasting fruits, grains, beans, and vegetables on the planet, sourced from known and trusted growers.

Organic Eden Barley & Brown Rice Miso, a combination of Mugi and Genmai misos, is an impressively umami-rich, live culture, and unpasteurized miso. It is the result of koji-fermented non-GMO organic soybeans, organic barley, and organic brown rice, crafted by a 170-year-old Japanese miso maker since 1854. This miso is excellent for year-round, everyday use.

An abundance of beneficial bacteria, enzymes, protective isoflavones, easy-to-assimilate protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals make this miso a potent food for the maintenance and recovery of good health. Miso is rapidly gaining recognition in the West as a protective and delicious superfood.

Miso contains a wealth of enzymes and microorganisms that aid digestion and help to build healthy intestinal flora while keeping undesirable flora in check. It is excellent for miso soup, bean, vegetable and noodle soups, as a seasoning in cooking, as a dip for vegetables (diluted to taste), in creamy salad dressings, or as a marinade.

Unpasteurized miso is living food with a culture of beneficial microorganisms, digestive enzymes, and protective isoflavones. Organic Eden Barley & Brown Rice Miso is non-GMO, made with whole soybeans, barley, and short-grain brown rice, koji-fermented the ancient way by miso masters.

Fermentation breaks down soy's proteins into amino acids and its starches into simple sugars, resulting in a predigested, easy-to-assimilate, nutrient-dense food. Miso of this nature is five times higher in protective isoflavones than other soy-based foods.

First, barley and brown rice are steamed separately, inoculated with koji seed Aspergillus oryzae, and incubated for two days. The resulting koji grain is then mixed with whole cooked soybeans, sea salt, and pure water in large vats to ferment for approximately six months at ambient temperatures. When the miso is ready, it is filled into one-way vented cube packages that allow gas to escape but prevent air from entering.

Organic Eden Barley & Brown Rice Miso carries forward generations of perfected miso-making skill at a family company that has produced miso through eight generations. The maker's dedication to superlative miso provides us with a patiently crafted, pleasing superfood that rejuvenates and sustains health.

Perfect and full of umami, this miso is essential for miso soups, stews, sauces, marinades, and more. It is an essential ingredient in any Japanese pantry. Refrigerate after opening.

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