All soluble sugars decreased rapidly when soybean pods were stored in nitrogen atmosphere at 25 C (Table 5). Oligosaccharides became nonexistent after one day. Sucrose decreased to 2.5 and 5.2 mg/g in V95-7456 and 03-CB14, respectively, at the 8th day of storage. After 12 days, no sucrose was detected in V95-7456. Fructose in V95-7456 decreased from 0.8 to 0 mg/g after the 4th days, and then accumulated again to 0.6 mg/g at the 10th day, which was probably due to the degradation of sucrose by microorganisms. Because of the high storage temperature of 25 C, vegetable soybean experienced higher anaerobic respiration and faster conversion of sugar to alcohol than it stored in N2 at 4 C. The high temperature also caused increased degradation from microorganisms,which depleted most soluble sugars in soybean.