Nutritional yeast

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• Zoe Raw Newbie

  well I know it’s not raw, it is baked at very high temps to make it, but I can’thelp you about the MSG bit though.
• coconutty Raw Newbie

  Well that’s the first time I’ve heard this! But I’m curious. Do you mind posting the link to the articles that have stated this, thanks!
• Zoe Raw Newbie

  Check out Spirited Mama’s comments on the following thread, for info about nutritional yeast and MSG, I think it will answer your question: http://www.goneraw.com/forums/3/topics/626

  coconutty, I researched how nutritional yeast is made, by contacting the manufacturers and searching manufacturing processes on the internet, and l found out that it is absolutley and definately not raw, sorry!

  Here is the link for Red Stars manufacturing process, as you will see the stuff is pasteurised/heated in order to kill any living thing, including the yeast!

  You have to click on the “consumer info” tab on the menu: http://www.lsaf.com/index.asp?Division=Nutritio…
• coconutty Raw Newbie

  I know that it’s not raw… I’ve just never heard that it was related to msg!
• CTcyclist

  http://www.daystarbotanicals.com/nutritionalyea… http://www.newstarget.com/001528.html http://my.opera.com/matermuse/blog/index.dml/ta…

  I’m not sure how reliable they are, and while the good sites far outnumber the bad ones concerning nutritional yeast, it’s still nice to find some reliable fact driven sites that prove a subject one way or the other.

  Better safe than sorry.
• Avo Cado

  Nutritional yeast is high in the excitatory amino acid glutamic acid. A ‘yeast extract’ could conceivably be (and in this context almost certainly is) just glutamic acid.

  Here’s a label profile for a whole nutritional yeast powder (not recommending this product. just showing what it looks like.)—

  lewis labs

  So yes, in the same way that vitamin C could be written as “orange extract” or beta carotene could be written as “pumpkin extract” I’d say labels for certain products are just using the language loosely in order to put a form of glutamate on the label without tipping the consumer off.

  To quote from wikipedia —

  Monosodium glutamate … is a sodium salt of glutamic acid.

  In its pure form, it appears as a white crystalline powder; when dissolved in water (or saliva) it rapidly dissociates into free sodium and glutamate ions (glutamate is the anionic form of glutamic acid, a naturally occurring amino acid).

  You can see both the ‘yeast extract’ of glutamic acid and the sodium salt msg end up as essentially the same thing in the body.
• Zoe Raw Newbie

  sorry coconutty, I thought you were responding to my post!