I bought a half pound package of five grain tempeh yesterday, and I just cooked it up now for brunch. Very good.

The tempeh ingredient list is:

• soybeans
  
• wheat
  
• millet
  
• oats
  
• barley
  
• brown rice

I cut the tempeh into little cubes and pan fried it is sesame oil, soy sauce, and garlic powder until it was browned and a little crispy on the sides.

To make tempeh they combine the ingredients listed above along with some rhizopus oligosporus culture (Just like they do with cheese or yogurt and soy sauce. Of course each uses different cultures.). They let the mixture sit overnight in a moist 88º environment. This gives the culture a chance to grow. It is what binds all of the grains together and gives it a good taste. The tempeh is then steamed to cook the grains and stop the culture from growing. It sounds weird, but it is very tasty.

The eight ounce package I got cost $1.50.

One third of the package is considered a serving.

One serving had 15 grams of carbohydrates.
- Four grams of that was in fiber (16% RDA!)
- Only 2 grams were sugars.
- The other 9 grams were complex carbohydrates.

One serving has a whopping 12 grams of protein (24% RDA!)

No sodium.

10% RDA of iron.

3.5 grams of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat (that is the good kind)
Only 0.5 grams of saturated fat.