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Adding some yellow flakes to your mushroom soup isn't going to solve the energy crisis, but it's tasty and helps vegetarians stay healthy on an animal-free diet.
COCKTAIL FACT
Yeast's Latin name, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, translates to English as "sweet beer mold."
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Want naturally healthier popcorn?
The Bite
Top it with some nutritional yeast. At its core, one of our fave condiments is great for your health since it packs necessary B-vitamins and satisfies your salt-tooth without too much sodium.The Benefits
- Natural-born good taste. Its cheesy, nutty flavor tastes great in soups and stir-fry dishes, and on salads, garlic bread, and yep, popcorn.
- Supporting underlying veg diet needs. Nutritional yeast is often fortified with vitamin B-12, which, among many things, helps your immune system function, and is hard to get if you don't consume animal products.
Personally Speaking
When he doesn't want to cook or leave the house, Toshio pops two bags of popcorn in the micro, pours some melted butter and a cup of nutritional yeast on top, and calls it dinner.Wanna Try?
- Nutritional Yeast Cookbook - tons of yeasty recipes, from pasta to paté ($10).
- Red Star Nutritional Yeast - little shaker of yeast that's fortified with vitamin B-12 ($5).
- You can also get nutritional yeast from bulk bins at most health food stores.
Jun 04,2008
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Sometimes it takes a lot to try something new. Last year, I did a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat-we ate breakfast very early in the morning, ate lunch mid-day, and drank tea in the late afternoon. The food was vegan and healthy to the max, which meant no caramels, no wine, no goat-cheese-and-asparagus tarts, no Zachary's pizza. But oh, my, were there condiments and flavorings galore, and after 10 days of brown foods and variations on water, you start getting experimental. Braggs Liquid Amino in mint tea? Why not. Nutritional yeast on raisin toast? Sure. Potatoes slathered with almond butter. Um, OK.
I'd love to say I munched upon an unexpected miracle like bananas and peanut butter, but after a few days of "Hm, I can see why no one else is eating this," I went back to mint tea with...nothing, butter on raisin toast and potatoes, and, yes, nutritional yeast on popcorn.
-Jenifer Morgan...off to eat something tried and true...
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