BIO-TRANSFORMED ® VITAMIN AND MINERAL YEASTS
Active Yeast Strain Utilized
Undue Concern For Infections and Allergies
Bio-Foods' proprietary Processes allow living yeast cells to interact with individual vitamins and minerals in a food media in order to help "build" the nutrients into a complex food matrix.
Although there are several hundred known strains of yeast, Bio-Foods uses Saccharomyces cerevisiae exclusively. Two common questions: "Is it Brewer's yeast?" and "Does it cause allergies?"
People can get confused because Saccharomyces cerevisiae is utilized for different purposes, and is called by different names according to its use.
A) After being used for brewing beer it is inactivated, dryed, sometimes
de-bittered, and sold in powder form as "Brewer's Yeast".
B) When grown on molasses to improve the taste, then inactivated, dryed
and packaged without being used in any other food or beverage
process first, it is called "Primary Grown Yeast".
C) When used to ferment grapes it is called "Wine Yeast".
D) When sold to the bakery industry for use in bread and cake it is called
"Baker's Yeast".
E) Often, when inactivated, dryed and packaged it is called "Nutritional
Yeast".
No matter the name, the strain is the same. Bio-Foods uses active Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is not pre-used in a baking, brewing, or other process. Since it is used to produce a nutritional product the best name would be "Nutritional Yeast".
Undue Concern For Infections and Allergies
Although diminishing, there may still be some unfounded concern in the marketplace that yeast per se, is risky. In some people's minds, all yeasts were linked to Candida albicans, an unhealthy strain. But not all strains are bad. There are several hundred strains of yeast in existence. Some are pathogenic and others are not. Saccharomyces cerevisiae in particular is wonderfully nutritional and beneficial.
Painting all yeasts with one brush is like painting all plants with one brush. Some plants are harmful (like poison ivy) so we avoid eating them. Others are eaten with relish because of their good taste and nutritional benefits (like squash or wheat). We should take the same approach to yeast, avoiding Candida albicans while relishing the benefits of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Bio-Foods' finished products, just like the Saccharomyces cerevisiae in bread after it is baked and in beer after it is brewed, is inactive! As such it cannot multiply and grow inside the human body or cause infections as some people used to fear. Remember, yeast is everywhere. It's in the air we breathe, on the fruits and vegetables we eat, and on the clothes we wear. More living yeast is encountered just by existing day to day than is consumed in a few tablets containing Bio-Foods' products.
As to allergies, every food will be allergic to someone. However, the numbers of people allergic to Saccharomyces cerevisiae are relatively few. Bio-Foods' addition of proteolytic enzymes at the end of the fermentation process helps break the cell walls, which is believed to reduce allergenicity.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used by humans in food and beverages for 5000 years, and has been called our oldest microbial associate. As you read this, untold millions around the globe are consuming it in their bread and drink, and do so on a daily basis. As one of our industry's original Super Foods, we should look favorably upon this wonderful gift of Nature.
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