soy sauce

Summary

soy sauce ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,147 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• soy sauce is made of soy bean^[2].
• soy sauce is a type of sauce^[3].
• soy sauce is a type of soy food^[4].
• soy sauce is a type of fermented food^[5].
• soy sauce's Commons category is recorded as Soy sauce^[6].
• soy sauce's country of origin is recorded as China^[7].
• soy sauce's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Soy sauces^[8].
• soy sauce's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[9].
• soy sauce's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[10].
• soy sauce's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '酱油'}^[11].
• soy sauce's cuisine is recorded as Japanese cuisine^[12].
• soy sauce's cuisine is recorded as Chinese cuisine^[13].
• soy sauce's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_0010148^[14].
• soy sauce's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[15].
• soy sauce's water footprint is recorded as {'unit': 'Q57899268', 'amount': '+613'}^[16].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include sauce^[3], soy food^[4], and fermented food^[5].

Why It Matters

soy sauce ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,147 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[17] It is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[18]