Yeast flakes (nutritional yeast)

Description

Nutritional yeast is applied to a variety of food products in the form of flakes (yeast flakes).

Nutritional yeast is a dry yeast that has been made inactive through the removal of water. It has a tangy flavour and is very rich in vitamins.

• Dried brewers' yeast also is processed to nutritional yeast and is used primarily in feed.

Application

For taste improvement and vitamin enrichment in many food products, such as:

• convenience soups, baked goods, sweets

Gene technology

Yeast: research on processes of gene technology is carried out with yeast.

• In the EU, no genetically modified yeast has been approved to date. Precise information on the commercial use of GM yeasts outside the EU is not available.

Nutrient solutions for yeast: applications of gene technology are possible for the nutrient solutions, with which yeasts are bred and cultivated.

• Nutrient solutions for yeasts: glucose, sugar or molasses, whey

Labelling: foodstuffs or ingredients that contain genetically modified yeasts or which are made from such yeasts, are subject to labelling.

Yeast products or foodstuffs may remain unlabelled if the nutrient solutions employed in the breeding or cultivation of yeasts are produced from genetically modified plants.