nutritional yeast

candypa
candypa Posts: 73 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
What do you use it for?
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  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    I don't keep it around anymore, but my favorite thing to do with it when I was vegan was as a topping for spaghetti or popcorn. I tried using it on top of any dish I might normally have topped with Parmesan cheese and/or garlic powder. I had been dairy-free for about 3 months before I learned of it. By then, it tasted deliciously cheesy and umami-y.
  • candypa
    candypa Posts: 73 Member
    I don't keep it around anymore, but my favorite thing to do with it when I was vegan was as a topping for spaghetti or popcorn. I tried using it on top of any dish I might normally have topped with Parmesan cheese and/or garlic powder. I had been dairy-free for about 3 months before I learned of it. By then, it tasted deliciously cheesy and umami-y.
    Why don't you keep it around anymore? Is there anything about it that you know of that is not good for you? I have been dairy free for about a month and just learned about it.
  • CloverCreeper
    CloverCreeper Posts: 178 Member
    It tastes awesome but it makes your pee super yellow due to the large amounts of B12.
    Try not to eat more that two tablespoons a day.
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    Why don't you keep it around anymore? Is there anything about it that you know of that is not good for you?

    LOL, no. It's fine. It's just I'm not dairy-free anymore! I'd much rather eat actual parmesan cheese and stuff! If I gave up dairy again, it would be one of the first things on my grocery list.
  • eowynmn
    eowynmn Posts: 165 Member
    Increasing breast milk supply
  • miss_metal
    miss_metal Posts: 6 Member
    Being Vegan I use it to make cheese sauce, its great!!
  • Oaeneo
    Oaeneo Posts: 65 Member
    I use it to make a great cheesy sauce or Alfredo sauce to cover steamed broccoli or cauliflower. My SO is a vegan so we do a lot of adaptations. I sprinkle it on eggs and really anything else. If you mix it with powdered nut (I use cashews) it makes a very creamy sauce with a little water or soy milk warmed over the stove.
  • NuggetLovesEdie
    NuggetLovesEdie Posts: 477 Member
    "to pollute your blood with candida."

    Wrong kind of yeast.

    Nutritional yeast is deactivated Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A good source of complete protein and hella tasty on popcorn.

    I've also had some vegan friends who would mix it in with lentil "meat balls" or make "cheese" sauce with it.

    ETA: Forgot to say my sweetie likes it on toast.
  • mkw122680
    mkw122680 Posts: 33
    I use it in mashed potatoes with garlic to make "cheesy" mashed potatoes. I've also used it to make a "cheese" sauce for a mac and cheese dish. I also used it with tofu to make an alfedo sauce. I have only been dairy free for coming up on 3 weeks, so I haven't found the taste of the nutritional yeast all that pleasing by itself. But I like it mixed into a sauce.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    I am in the minority here. I tried it cuz I can't have cheese. It seemed like an awesome idea...then, it went in the trash - nauseating. It smelled like stinky feet and tasted like *kitten*. :sick:
  • perceptualobfuscator
    perceptualobfuscator Posts: 159 Member
    Making cheesy kale chips (rip kale, spray lightly with oil, mix with nutritional yeast so that lightly coated, bake).

    Tofu scrambles: 1/4 block tofu crumbled into 2 Tbsp nutritional yeast and 1 tsp garlic powder. Mix together and fry like eggs.

    Topping for spaghetti/pasta, pasta sauces (like you would use Parmesan).

    Vegan mac and cheese (cashews, nutritional yeast, seasoning salt, garlic powder, onion powder, arrowroot powder = delicious).

    Tofu bacon (liquid smoke, soy sauce, oil, nutritional yeast).


    Just don't eat it plain. Tastes like cardboard.
  • Seajolly
    Seajolly Posts: 1,435 Member
    I add it to rice, beans, burritos, etc. Basically anything I'd sprinkle cheese onto, I will add it to.
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    My tastebuds are watering after reading more people's replies. Maybe I'll buy some anyway... cheesy popcorn, cheesy kale chips, cheesy noodles... *drool*
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Vegan mac and cheese (cashews, nutritional yeast, seasoning salt, garlic powder, onion powder, arrowroot powder = delicious).

    I will try this (minus the nasty nutritional yeast). I would like a creamy, savory sauce for pasta but I don't need the "cheese" flavor that supposedly comes from the yeast. Thanks for the idea. :drinker:
  • bpn80
    bpn80 Posts: 43
    I put it on popcorn! yum!
  • candypa
    candypa Posts: 73 Member
    Thanks for the input. I actually found some in a store, but haven't opened it yet.
  • Mrs_Bones
    Mrs_Bones Posts: 195 Member
    So much love! I make a nutritional yeast sauce to dump all over pasta... mmm comfort foot.
  • katy84o
    katy84o Posts: 744 Member
    I sprinkle a bit on everything savory!
  • sn_etuk
    sn_etuk Posts: 14 Member
    Marinate extra firm tofu in apple cider vinegar and soy sauce, roll in nutritional yeast, and bake. Very yummy.
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    Oy vay people will say anything. I remember my Mom buying this but I dont remember what it tasted like, but it it's cheesey. YUM, might have to rediscover it.
  • amyanne75
    amyanne75 Posts: 4 Member
    I was skeptical about nutritional yeast at first, but it is really good if you aren't eating anything that remotely tastes like cheese. It's not going to taste exactly like cheese, but it is a great substitute and I think waaaayyyy better than the soy cheeses that are out there. I used it to make a vegan lasagna and it was really good! It does make good kale chips too.
  • Bobtheangrytomato
    Bobtheangrytomato Posts: 251 Member
    It tastes awesome but it makes your pee super yellow due to the large amounts of B12.
    Try not to eat more that two tablespoons a day.

    The whole foods bulk nutritional yeast isn't fortified with B12 (I think most others are).
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    let me clarify, consuming yeast will cause candida to form in the blood, candida feeds on sugar which can give you low energy levels. The waste product of candida is acicid which cause your body to use calcium from bones and magnesium from the muscles to buffer the acid to bring it back in to the range of 7.35-7.45 hydrogen concentration aka pH. If these systems get exhausted, then it will store the acid in tissue, which is very bad.

    links? Honestly, I'd like to read them. I often consume Saccharomyces cerevisiae via beer, and wonder if the fermented version of it also makes yeast grow in my bloodstream.
  • toadkingdom
    toadkingdom Posts: 10
    Nutritional yeast is a really great vegan source of <strike>B-12</strike> B vitamins in general + B-12 too if it's fortified. I think calling it cheesy is a stretch, but it's mos def salty & a little bit creamy. I don't cook with it. Sprinkle it on cooked veggies, pasta, eggs, whatever you want. Treat it like a salt substitute... or if you must parmesan.

    I know I should just ignore the comment, I'm sure the poster is well intentioned, but if you have a fungus growing in your blood stream you got real problems... like you might wanna be checked for zombie-ism because fungus-infused blood just doesn't happen to people living on this side of the soil.
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    A Google search has resulted in the cases of candidemia being nosocomial diagnosed in immunosupressed patients receiving nutrition via a catheter.

    In English: AIDS patients, people undergoing chemotherapy, etc. can catch this from insufficiently sterilized feeding tubes. I didn't find any mention of it in healthy individuals.

    Edit to say: thanks for the link
  • 05xb
    05xb Posts: 3
    I use it as the final topping on my vegan pizza, adds a cheese like flavor also great for adding extra protein and B vitamins to my diet.
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  • now_or_never13
    now_or_never13 Posts: 1,575 Member
    let me clarify, consuming yeast will cause candida to form in the blood, candida feeds on sugar which can give you low energy levels. The waste product of candida is acicid which cause your body to use calcium from bones and magnesium from the muscles to buffer the acid to bring it back in to the range of 7.35-7.45 hydrogen concentration aka pH. If these systems get exhausted, then it will store the acid in tissue, which is very bad.

    So no one should ever eat bread again? Pizza? Bagels? Etc. All have yeast in them.

    The article you posted explains how many people are hospitalized for candida .... not what causes it.

    With the amount of bread consumption in the world we should all be dead by now or in the hospital due to candida.

    For the OP, I love it on popcorn.. sprinkled on a salad... pasta.. etc
  • 1brokegal44
    1brokegal44 Posts: 562 Member
    Ok, sorry. The first thing I thought of the Woody Allen quote from Annie Hall. "I’ll have the alfalfa sprouts and a plate of mashed yeast."
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    A Google search has resulted in the cases of candidemia being nosocomial diagnosed in immunosupressed patients receiving nutrition via a catheter.

    In English: AIDS patients, people undergoing chemotherapy, etc. can catch this from insufficiently sterilized feeding tubes. I didn't find any mention of it in healthy individuals.

    Edit to say: thanks for the link

    Oh quit talking sense no point in wasting precious energy to educate when it is going to be thrown out and agrued some strange "fact." I applaud the attempt though I saw the original reply almost commented but decided it wasnt worth my time.
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    Oh quit talking sense no point in wasting precious energy to educate when it is going to be thrown out and agrued some strange "fact." I applaud the attempt though I saw the original reply almost commented but decided it wasnt worth my time.

    Here's a great song about the biology/effects of my favorite way to consume S. cerevisiae. I just wanted to make sure I didn't need to check my blood for a yeast overgrowth.
    http://bmcdb.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/a-biologists-st-patricks-day-song/

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