is yeast vegan? woman kneading bread dough

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  1. Years ago, I saw a video that showed yeast under a microscope, basically – well, having yeast sex. The video above only reinforces my “qualms” about eating yeast or any foods made with yeast. I’m not suffering; I can live without bread products – I eat pasta and / or hot wheat cereals. I did like the taste and texture of nutritional yeast, but it’s just not worth worrying about. Maybe they don’t ‘feel pain’, etc. but I just don’t feel right eating them. I’m vegetarian since 1986 (I still had the occasional yogurt) and vegan since 2007 (I was still using non-dairy creamer, which I learned has casein, an animal-derived protein). I ditched that and now use a certain organic soy milk, which I love. Yeast will remaiin off-limits for me, for now.

  2. PLEASE do not include my last name in my comment!! It says name is required, so I put my full name in – not knowing it would show up here. And there is no option to edit or delete.

  3. June Dafgard says:

    Yeasts have … parents? Oh dear. I stopped eating nutritional yeast some years ago, when I saw a video that showed yeast under a microscope, basically – well, having yeast sex. The video above only reinforces my “qualms” about eating yeast or any foods made with yeast. I’m not suffering; I can live without bread products – I eat pasta and / or hot wheat cereals. I did like the taste and texture of nutritional yeast, but it’s just not worth worrying about. Maybe they don’t ‘feel pain’, etc. but I just don’t feel right eating them. I’m vegetarian since 1986 (I still had the occasional yogurt) and vegan since 2007 (I was still using non-dairy creamer, which I learned has casein, an animal-derived protein). I ditched that, and now use a certain organic soy milk, which I love. Yeast, however, will remain off-limits for me, for now.

  4. Yeast does eat sugar during fermentation and “grows stronger”, though eventually, by the end of the fermentation, poisons itself with the alcohol in the container and dies. Often it is intentionally killed by using agents for stopping fermentation and stabilising wine for sweet wines or before bottling. Whether yeast is something vegans should care about or not is another matter.

  5. Thank u so much for this thorough and detailed analysis! The origin of yeast has really created a contoversial issue in my head. Now everything is more clear for sure))