Nutritional Yeast VS Brewer's Yeast

[Smileen]

What's the diff?

Thanks,

[willow]

As far as I know, they are the same thing - just referred to with different names.

[Sweet lips]

Brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) is an inactive yeast, meaning the yeasts have been killed and have no leavening power. It is the yeast remaining after beer making. It is used as a nutrient supplement to increase the intake of B vitamins. Brewer's yeast comes powdered (the most potent form), in flakes (best for health shakes), and in tablets.

Brewer's yeast and torula yeast are frequently confused with nutritional yeast. Nutritional yeast is a primary grown food crop, which means it is cultivated specifically for use as a nutritional supplement. This yeast is dried at higher temperatures than baking yeast, rendering it inactive. Unlike the live yeasts used in breadmaking and brewing, nutritional yeast has no fermenting or leavening power.

Nutritional is used to give foods the taste of cheese and Brewers yeast is used as stated above for increased intake of vitamin B.

Hope this helps

[Smileen]

Thanks, Sweet! That helps alot.

Do you think there is credence to the idea that if you are challenged with candida, that you should not consume nutrional yeast (or the other types)?

[askcassyfirst]

I deal with candida issues at my work, like I have said before, I work for a Digestive Care Company.

Candida Albicans, the yeast responsible for "candidasis" is naturally occuring in everyone's digestive system. The problems come when it grows out of proportion due to many factors....It escapes thru the mucosa and into the bloodstream...taking up residence any place it can. (ie: if you have low stomach acid it will migrate up into the stomach and the esophagus, and grow as oral thrush. If you have an "itchy" sensation in your inner ear, it is most likely candida... some get nail fungus or athletes foot. It is the same yeasty beast!)

The thing is, the best thing to do when you have this issue to to go on a NO sugar diet and stave them out, in combination with a program of probiotics or cultured food, and an herbal cleanse designed to kill the candida. Which means no foods like bread or alcohol which typically use the yeast. (that would feed the buggers!) THat is one reason why food yeasts are commonly contraindicated on the anticandida diet.

The thing with candida is that it thrives when people have a low immune system, and the low stomach acid, or alkaline bowel, allows the candida to grow and grow. (this is not the same as alkaline body...) you need an acid stomach to kill bacteria, sterilize food and break down proteins...THere is a lot to it, but if you can't kill the bacteria or yeast that is in or on your food, it can take up resisdence....as can bad bacteria...That is why many books recommend against consuming ANY type of yeast.

Here is a PDF Link about candida incase anyone else is interested. They have medical citations, so they are not just opinion... :o
http://renewlife.com/assets/pdf/news/quelling.pdf

Funny, my path toward health and well being started with fighting candida. Back in 1996 I discovered this issue when speaking with a Natural Practitioner back in Ca where I lived back then. I credit her for inspiring me to leave my career as a retail manager ( I had also just finished up University), to become a nutritionist and spread the word about health and nutrition! If it weren't for her, several family members may never have learned about the non-alopathic methods that brought them back to wellness... YEasty Beasties were the begining of it all! :) :) :)

Cassy

sorry for the rant. I think it is time for bed now... :cool:

[Smileen]

Thanks, Cassy. So then are you saying that nutritional yeast should also be excluded from the anticandida diet? I ask because the yeast is supposedly dead.

[Melissa]

Cassy,
I'm interested in that same question. I've held off from using nutritional yeast because (though I've never been diagnosed with candida) I had an itchy red rash on my chest years ago and every so often it flares up again. I always wondered if it was yeast. On raw, it mostly has gone away except when I juice fast (like now) when I feel some itchiness there, but no redness. Maybe it's a detox reaction or a response to the fruit juices. (Doesn't flare when I eat raw fruit though.) Anyway, in my previous non raw life my main food groups were cheese, bread, butter, chocolate and wine...and I do crave that cheesy taste that nutritional yeast supposedly imparts (have never tried it...is this true?) Do you think eating it would increase the yeast in my body and make problems flare? Thanks in advance for any thoughts! Best, Melissa

[askcassyfirst]

I guess I should reclarify what I said... My initial post was meant to explain that most yeast in food is dead, and that the kind you find in food is different than the pathogenic yeast responsible for the health issues people associate with it...

The underlying problem with candidiais is that people have a compromised immune system. Some it is because of medications like hormones or the pill or NSAIDS. For others it may be a high sugar or high fat diet or stress. There is a real connection between underlying chronic heavy metal toxcity and a lowered immune system leading to candida. (That applies to mercury fillings!) THere are many things that cause Candidiasis. If you send me a Private Message with your mailing address I can send you some free consumer literature about this.

However, when you have a lowered immune system and low amounts of good bacteria, the yeast are fighting tooth and nail for space and food within your body. You must then be careful about consuming any thing that might "feed" the candida. They like simple sugars, and will even ferment fiber, so that is why even most fruit except granny smith apples are contraindicated on the anti-candida diet. And, many food items that use FOOD type brewers yeast, or bakers yeast are high in such sugars...beer, bread, pastries, etc. So, that is why they are contraindicated. It is not really the yeast in them that causes a lot of problem, because most of that yeast is likely dead before it gets to the consumer. (This is also why olden day nutritionists would say to never eat your bread when it is fresh...let the yeasties die...) Those food types of yeast are not the same candida albicans, which is the type that cause the health issues like skin rashes, athletes foot, vaginal issues, etc.

Really, for the person with a lowered immunity, it is the pathogenic bacteria and yeasts that can enter through the mouth that cause the problem to be exaserbated. Meaning, if you are not able to kill what is all over your hands, your kitchen utencils, the pens on your desk, etc, and it happens to end up in your mouth, and you don't have strong defenses, like stomach acid and digestive enzymes, etc, they too will cause infection. You get ecoli this way. Samonella as well. It gets in, multiplies, and overwhelms the good healthy bacteria that normally live in you...when there are no good bacteria, the candida albicans grows out of proportion....

The truth is, I am not sure that nutritional yeast is "bad" persay. It is not live, not like what you get when you consume fresh bread. You might consider it to be a nutritional "food" that was fermented by yeast to make healthy vitamins. That is the best way to get your vitamins anyway, from food.

Hope that helps.
Cassy

[Sweet lips]

Melissa,

You may want to check, but that sounds a little like excezma. The raw diet will help it as Rawkinlocs reported earlier.

[Sharon in Colorado]

I like the taste of nutrtional yeast. It is a yellow flaky powder with a pleasant flavor somewhat like cheese. Many health-oriented folks shake it on their popcorn. It is grown on molasses or beets.

The other, brewer's yeast, is a beer bi-product and tastes pretty bad to me. It is a brown granule-type powder.

[Sweet lips]

Melissa,

You may want to check, but that sounds a little like excezma. The raw diet will help it as Rawkinlocs reported earlier.

[Melissa]

Thanks everyone. I might try some nutritional yeast and see how it affects me. It might be eczema, you're right. Either way I'm sticking with raw and hope to see it completely vanish.