What Is Nutritional Yeast? Is This Secret Plant-Based Ingredient Good for You?

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What Is Nutritional Yeast? Is This Secret Plant-Based Ingredient Good for You? - Food Revolution

What Is Nutritional Yeast? And How Is It Made?

Plant-based eaters use nutritional yeast as a condiment to add a savory, cheesy flavor to a myriad of dishes. It’s also used as a rich source of important vitamins and minerals, protein, and fiber.

Most nutritional yeasts don’t contain any animal-derived ingredients. This makes nooch a useful alternative to dairy cheese in certain dishes.

Nutritional yeast is the same species of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) used to make beer, bread, or kombucha. But it’s a different end product.

One major difference is that, for the most part, people use baker’s and brewer’s yeast in their active form. Nutritional yeast is inactive, so it has no leavening ability. In other words, it won’t make dough rise — and it won’t reproduce inside you, even if you eat it raw.

Nutritional yeast is made by growing S. cerevisiae on a sugar-rich molasses medium. Then, it is deactivated with heat, washed, pasteurized, dried, and crumbled.
 
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