Nestle admit to using soybeans in coffee productsVietNamNet Bridge - Confirming that its coffee products in the market contain soybeans, a representative of Nestle Vietnam said the proportion of ingredients was a "business secret’. The police once discovered a roaster which provided ‘100 percent soybean product’ but advertised that it sold ‘100 percent pure coffee’. However, the problem is that the roasters still sell products in the market as 100 percent coffee. Vinatas, the association for standards and consumers rights protection, said that 30 percent of coffee products available in the market contain very little or no caffeine.C49, the Police Department for Environmental Crime Prevention, confirmed that when conducting inspection tours to localities, it discovered coffee roasters mixing coffee with soybeans and cereal to save costs and optimize profits.Mixing coffee with soybeans is not prohibited by law. Very few suppliers declare the proportion of soybeans in products.A representative of C49 said the police once discovered a roaster which provided ‘100 percent soybean product’ but advertised that it sold ‘100 percent pure coffee’.Nguyen Hung Long, deputy head of the Department of Food Hygiene and Safety, said the ministry’s inspectors many times discovered that coffee products had been mixed with soybeans and corn.“Sometimes the coffee made in Kon Tum province was labeled as the product of HCM City and the producers did not show the ingredients.

Source: VietNamNet News July 29, 2016 03:00 UTC