11. Nutritional yeast is a powerhouse. 12. Perpte suspects the modified yeast would be perfect for alcohol-free beer, but the food industry in Europe is nervous about genetic engineering. 13. The yeast in microbrews is a particular problem for some people, and caffeine is a classic trigger. 14. Though yeast is undeniably a simpler life form than humankind, its cells contain many genes that resemble ours. 15. Yeast is what sets Belgian waffles apart. 16. Yeast is a living organism, as susceptible to contamination as we are the common cold. 17. Yeasts are simple one-celled plants, members of the large Ascomycetes family of funguses. 18. Even though yeast is only a single-celled organism, it shares many of the same protein functions as more sophisticated lifeforms, including man. |