{"id":5289,"date":"2019-03-11T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.befresh.ca\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T22:50:52","slug":"blog-nutritional-yeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.befresh.ca\/wrdp\/blog-nutritional-yeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutritional Yeast: What The Heck Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nutritional yeast has been trending for a while. It’s a quintessential pantry item for anyone who’s relatively health conscious and is 100% guaranteed to be found in any vegan’s kitchen. While we all know and love the stuff, do we actually know what<\/em> it really is?<\/span><\/p>\n

What is nutritional yeast? <\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Nutritional yeast, aka nooch, is a deactivated yeast. It\u2019s not like the activated yeast you\u2019re familiar with though, so don\u2019t try using nooch to leaven bread. It won\u2019t go over well. Nutritional yeast is made from sugar-cane and beet molasses and is loaded with nutrients – mostly B-vitamins and protein (it\u2019s actually a complete protein that provides all 9 amino acids!), but also fibre and iron too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When you buy our Be Fresh Nutritional Yeast<\/a> – Don’t forget to return the bags!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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How do you eat it?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

People mostly use nutritional yeast as a cheesy topping or flavouring. It has a savoury, umami-ish flavour that\u2019s both cheesy and nutty, so basically whenever you\u2019d use cheese for flavour, try using nooch in its place. There are many ways to use nutritional yeast, but here are some of our favourites: <\/span><\/p>\n