Insight and news on the use of yeast extract as a natural and vegan-friendly ingredient in cooking.
Yeast extract – a natural ingredient with a tradition
Yeast extract is made from brewer's or baker's yeast and has been used as a natural ingredient for a wide variety of foodstuffs for over 100 years. To make yeast extract, sugar is added to the fresh yeast – just like you do when baking. This way the yeast can [...]
Yeast extract in the food producing industry – a seasoning ingredient
In media coverage there is sometimes the accusation that yeast extract is a kind of "hidden flavour enhancer". But just what function does yeast extract have in food production? The EURASYP newsletter asked the expert Prof. Dr.-Ing. Achim Stiebing, Head of the Institute for Food Technology, North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany at [...]
Study on consumer hotlines shows demand for transparent information
A bachelor thesis presented at the German Niederrhein University compared ten hotlines of different food producers using the example of yeast extract and the Clean Labelling "without flavour enhancers". The result: Only three of the tested hotlines received the overall mark "good", four were "satisfactory" and three were even "inadequate". [...]
No tasty foods without glutamate
Natural glutamate is more present in our daily diet than most consumers realize: Because the amino acid occurs naturally in all foods that are rich in protein or have matured – and ensures an intensive, savoury taste that is very popular across cultures. Numerous examples of traditional specialities such as [...]
Latest media report: “Glutamate: All is well!“
“But Glutamate is not responsible for a lot of things it is accused of. Industrially produced glutamate is chemically identical to that which occurs naturally – for example, in Parmesan. It is not harmful to health“, says RONDO, the magazine of the Austrian daily “Der Standard“. The report of Tobias Müller [...]
Natural glutamate – an inherent part of our diet
Glutamate – for some consumers a controversial word. But what few people know: Glutamate is not the same as the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate. Glutamate is an amino acid naturally found in various foods and perceived as a spicy flavour. Expert Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ursula Bordewick-Dell of the Oecotrophology [...]
