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| Feed grade soybean varieties can be prepared like edamame but will not taste the same as a edamame bean.
For good quality edamame, you need an edamame bean variety.
My family in Maryland has grown (for home consumption) an edamame bean called "Butterbeans" for almost 30 years.
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-6378-butterbeans-og.aspx
We would sit around and shell these beans as a family activity when I was a kid... we normally ate them mixed with cut corn as a succotash.
We called them vegetable soybeans... didn't learn the word edamame until about 10 years ago.
I grew some of the edamame varieties described at the following link as a small scale commercial crop in NC about 10 years ago:
http://www.edamameseed.com/edamamevarieties.html
Good luck!
Joel
WIU Agriculture
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Make your own edamame??
