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Food Yeast is Nutritional Yeast. Usually considered a supplement. It is made through a fermentation process and contains a lot of vitamin B-complex, proteins and amino acids.
You can find it at a health food store or in the supplement section of your grocer or drug store. It add a kind of cheesy flavor to foods. I like to use it to make some of my dressing for salads. Hope this info helps.

Mindi

It does have a lot of flavor. You can grind pinenuts with a little nutritional yeast and it will taste like a parmesan cheese without all the guilt and with a big punch of essential amino acids and vitamins.

Here is a quick glossery of yeasts:

Nutritional yeast Vegetarian Support Formula™ by Red Star® (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is a primary grown nutritional yeast grown specifically for nutritional benefits.

Active dry yeast is made from cream yeast. It is a raising agent used in baked goods.

Brewers yeast, is a bitter by-product of the brewing industry that has a high nutritional profile, but typically not as high as Red Star® Nutritional Yeast which is grown for maximized nutritional benefits.

Torula yeast (Pichia jadinii), is a by-product of the paper mill waste streams obtained by growing Pichia jadinii on wood sugars.

Dairy yeast, or whey yeast (Kluyveromyce marxianus), is obtained by growing Kluyveromyce marxianus using cheese whey or whey permeate.

Candida yeast infection (Candida Albicans) is a body yeast infection. Red Star®’s nutritional yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is not found to be a cause of yeast or candida infections.

Wine Yeast (Saccharomyces fermentati) is used in fermenting grapes into wine.

That's lots of information. I'll have to start investigating my local stores. Thanks!

We use nutritional yeast in so many things! As a former vegan I used it to make "cheeze" sauce and tossed it in scrambled tofu, smoothies, with pasta, in my vegan pesto instead of parmesan, sprinkled on the cat food, etc.
We still make my mac-n-cheeze using nutritional yeast instead of dairy cheese, and for a quick last-minute supper we toss it with pasta and garlic, drizzled with olive oil and topped with black pepper. YUMMY.
It might take some getting used to if you are not familiar with it, but I've converted many folks over to this nutritional and tasty yeast.

I forgot...we buy it in 10# bulk bags (much cheaper) and store it in a cool dry place. It is pale yellow or beige in color and comes either powdered or flaked. I recommend flakes because you can always grind it into a powder if need be, but it's more redily available flaked.

Looks like it was answered! :) Are Engivita and nutritional yeast the same? I think so, but not sure. It is delicious on popcorn too. :)

~Tanya

Mindi and Dana, thanks for the info on yeasts! I'll try to remember to check for some nutritional yeast at the store. Then maybe my Dutch Cheese Patties will taste how they should... cheesier! ;)

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