YEAST-FERMENTED NUTRIENTS

Are Significantly Different Than

NUTRIENT ENRICHED YEASTS

Nutrients Fermented in Living Yeast

To ferment a nutrient in living yeast Bio-Foods adds active (alive) Saccharomyces cerevisiae to a fermentation media (food to nourish the yeast) in a low solids (lots of water) liquid state in a heat controlled (jacketed) fermentation tank. The vitamin or mineral to be produced, in the amount required to meet the potency claim, is added to the media and exposed to a lengthy fermentation phase. The large amount of water made necessary by fermentation can only be evaporated by spray drying, the second stage of an expensive but necessary three-stage (the first being water purification) process. The entire process requires about five days to complete.

Fermentation transforms both the media and the nutrients into one integrated whole food, with the nutrients as integral parts of a complex food matrix. That is the way nutrients are found in nature. 


Yeast Enriched (Blended) with a Nutrient

To enrich a yeast (or processed flour, etc.) with a nutrient, one merely has to dry blend the nutrient into dry inactive (dead) yeast powder (or into dry ground processed flour, etc.). This simple process only takes a couple of hours. 

No transformation takes place, no utilization or emulation of Nature occurs, no post-blending drying is necessary. Time, effort, and expense are minimal. 

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