SOYBEAN FLOUR AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF

The invention relates to a method for producing soybean flour from soybeans consisting in peeling soybeans to a peeling ratio equal to or higher than 95 %, breaking and standardising the size of the peeled soybeans until achievin g a particle size distribution in which 90 % of soy particle sizes range from 100.mu.m to 1 mm by exposing the peeled soybeans to impact forces, deactivating the enzymatic system of the thus obtained and size-standardised soy particles and in grinding said size-uniformed soy particles until achieving a particle size distribution in which 95 % of soy particles have sizes of less than 100.mu.m by exposing said deactivated, ground and uniform ed particles to shearing forces. Said invention also relates to a soybean flour which is produced preferably by the inventive method, wherein the maximum particle size distribution is less than 100.mu.m, the soybean enzymatic syst em is at least partially deactivated by heat and the peel content is less than 0.5 mass %.