Provided is a method for producing soyasaponins inexpensively and simply without crushing seeds or plant bodies and without performing organic solvent treatment. The method for producing soyasaponins comprises bringing at least a part of a plant body of a leguminous plant into contact with an aqueous solution while culturing or cultivating the plant body using the aqueous solution; and collecting the aqueous solution or separating soyasaponins from the aqueous solution.