Why you Should Add this Tastey Booster Food, Nutritional Yeast, to Your Diet

By Karen Brennan, MSW, NC, BCHN®, Herbalist

Nutritional Yeast: What is it?

Nutritional Yeast is not a plant nor animal food but rather a fungus like mushrooms. It is a good addition to a vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten free and dairy free diet.

I have Candida, I am avoiding foods that contain yeast, can I eat nutritional yeast?

The yeast you find in breads and beer is a live and active yeast. Nutritional yeast comes in a dried flake form and is not an active yeast. This means you cannot use it to make bread or beer but more importantly it …read more