Nutritional Yeast

Hazard level: No known concerns

What is Nutritional Yeast?

Deactivated yeast with a savory, cheese-like flavor, popular as a vegan seasoning and B-vitamin source.

Is Nutritional Yeast safe?

Nutritional Yeast has no known health concerns in the amounts typically used in food.

Score impact: No penalty on the FoodsScan score (FoodsScan scores run 0–100, where 100 is best.)

Found in 22 of 12,846 analysed products in the FoodsScan database.

Regulatory sources: EFSA

Also known as

Nutritional Yeast is also known as nooch, бирена мая, хранителна мая, brewer's yeast, brewer’s yeast — these all refer to the same ingredient.

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Where Nutritional Yeast is typically found

Snacks Breakfasts Spreads Sweet Snacks Biscuits And Cakes

Related additives

Salt (Sodium Chloride) Water wheat sunflower oil Natural Flavouring Sugar (Sucrose) Paprika Rosemary Extract (E392) Sodium Ascorbate (E301) Gluten

Products containing Nutritional Yeast

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