Sound Bites from
Azlin Mustapha/ MU Food Science Associate Professor	

	
“Soy, not just the bars but any soy foods, American consumers are not used to 
eating soy as a human food. And so, even though they understand the health benefits 
that come with soy foods, they tend to shy away from eating soy because of 
undesirable intestinal symptoms that come about with eating soy.”

 “We were able to create a soy product, a health beneficial soy product, that 
contained health beneficial bacteria and still allowed the consumer to enjoy this 
product without causing any symptoms.”

“Consumers should be able to digest these bars better than a typical soy energy bar 
that doesn’t have these probiotic, these selected probiotics, because we were able to 
show that these probiotics could successfully break down these problematic sugars 
that are inherent in the soy.”