Nutritional Yeast

Other names : nooch
Nutritional yeast is cultivated via beet and cane molasses fermentation for approximately a week, then dried, and packaged as flakes, both large and small. Despite this process, there are no glucose or gluten concerns. Nutritional yeast is deactivated yeast - it won't froth like baker's yeast, which is active and used as a leavening agent to make bread rise. So nutritional yeast flakes may be okay for those on yeast free diets.

Special Precautions of Nutritional Yeast

• Don't confuse deactivated nutritional yeast with Brewer's Yeast, which is a byproduct of brewing beer, or baker's yeast, which is activated to make bread rise. Nutritional yeast is derived from a single cell organism called Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
• If overheated, there can be some free glutamates released.

Benefits and uses of Nutritional Yeast are

• The B vitamins in abundance include B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B6 (pyridoxine), and B9 (folic acid).
• Nutritional yeast flakes are also a good source of selenium and zinc.
• A few nutritional yeast products are enriched with B12.