What is nutritional yeast?

[Bampot]

Hi folks. I'm from the UK and was in a couple of health food stores today and had a look for nutritional yeast and couldn't find any. I just saw the regular freeze dried yeast for making bread and things.

Is it called something different in the UK? Or maybe it's not available here? :confused:

I'm missing that cheesy taste, so any advice welcome :)

[spiralgirl]

Bampot,

Okay I'll try my best to help you. First off, it's not raw but it has B12 in it although not naturally occuring B12. It does have a cheesy taste. It is a bright yellow flakey type of thing. Let's see if I can find a photo for you.

Here is a link to what it is: http://vegetarian.about.com/od/glossary/g/nutyeast.htm

Here are a few photos of it:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=photo+of+nutritional+yeast&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&fp_ip=CA&x=wrt&js=1&ni=21&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-3174090330_q-3zUGGDeDTS/EDokdznqXIgAAAA@@
Look at the one bottom right second one in.

As for what it might be called in the UK I don't know. Also found this place that sells raw food in the UK:
http://www.totalrawfood.com/products/?PHPSESSID=6c8ddabc67683be20fb67700124dfd39 (don't know if they have Nutritional Yeast but you could ask what it's called maybe.

[Bampot]

Thanks SpiralGirl!

That's really helpful - I'll try the new health food store I've found and see if they have it.

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