97% of Americans have a bottle in ... as a thick red sauce, but it was something pretty different in the beginning. It originated as a thin soy sauce made from fermented fish most likely from ...

Since the original lamp launched in 2020 it has funded the removal of more than 30 tonnes of plastic from coastlines and waterways – equivalent to over 30 million soy-sauce fish bottles.

But the increasing use of airtight containers to bottle soy sauce by brands has begun breaking that habit in the last 10 years or so, as they allow the condiment to be kept at room temperature.