Light Soy Sauce (Usukuchi shoyu)
Light soy sauce, like heavy soy sauce, is made with about equal amounts of soy beans and wheat. Light soy sauce, however, is processed to produce a lighter color. Light soy sauce is used when emphasis is to be placed on the colors of food ingredients. Light soy sauce, though lighter in color than heavy soy sauce, but is actually has a bit more salt (18% of content) than does heavy soy sauce (16%).
Text by Kitchen Nippon
KitchenNippon 
2015年4月4日 at 9:56 PM
This is funny because when I first arrived in Japan I bought this because I thought it was low salt as in usui meaning weak or light. It wasnt till I attended one of your classes that I learnt it was the opposite!
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2015年4月4日 at 11:35 PM
Even some Japanese misunderstand it. I’ve been one of them for long time.
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