Nutritional Yeast
Nutritional yeast – also known as nooch – is a vegan kitchen staple with an addictive cheesy taste and plentiful B vitamins.
It is an inactive form of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same strain of yeast as used in baking and brewing but inactivated with heat so it’s no longer alive.
The yeast is grown in vats of molasses – providing sugar – and water. As long as it is supplied with plenty of sugar, the yeast will grow, digesting the sugar and releasing carbon
