Abstract: Method for producing edible soybean meal which is essentially free from bitter taste by moistening pieces, e.g., small flakes, of soybeans to increase their water content to 12 to 25%, heat treating the moistened pieces at 90.degree.-120.degree. C. while subjecting them to a slow, compacting mechanical movement sufficient to achieve a minimum bulk weight of at least about 400 kg/m.sup.3, thereafter extracting soybean oil from the pieces with a non-polar solvent, and drying the soybean pieces to obtain soybean meal which is essentially without bitter taste.

Abstract: Production of edible soybean oil from raw soybean oil extracted from soybeans by first moistening soybean flakes to raise their water content to 12 to 25% by weight and subjecting the moistened flakes to heat treatment at 90.degree. to 120.degree. C. and thereafter extracting crude soybean oil from the treated flakes with a non-polar solvent; subjecting the crude soybean oil, after removal of lecithin therefrom, to bleaching without a separate desliming step; and thereafter deodorizing with simultaneous deacidizing the bleached soybean oil.