Forums: September 2011 Kickstart Forum: Nutritional Yeast
Created on: 09/14/11 09:59 AM Views: 3312 Replies: 19
3faithful Joined: 09/14/11 Posts: 8	Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 9:59 AM I'm very new at all this but have been following the 21-day kickstart faithfully for the last 10 days. The good: I'm positively amazed at how much energy I have and I feel "lighter" in a hard-to-explain way. The bad - having to plan my meals in advance (so I have the right food in the house)and living with a caveman and 14 year old triplets that subscribe to his ideas about meat. but that's a different topic! I'm investigating new recipes and often see "nutritional yeast" listed as an ingredient. I've also read posts that people sprinkle it on their food. What is it and what does it taste like?
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vegankitty Joined: 12/29/10 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 109	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:09 AM Hi 3faithful, Nutritional yeast can be easily used a topping on salads, seasoning in soups/salads, sandwiches. Many people also make a cheese sauce out of it. It has cheese like taste (slightly salty I would say but not like cheese with actually tastes salty at times). It comes in dry, yellow flakes and can easily adopt a cheese like texture with the right amount of liquid (unsweetend soymilk, water). Vegans usually eat it for its B12 content and cheese like taste. I am trying to incorporate B6 into my diet (due to recent history with a kidney stone) and I found that Nutritional yeast almost has 140% of B6 vitamin. I love to use it as a topping on my raw veggies, in soups, sprinkle it on my salad. (and then no need for salt) It is easy to be mankind, Difficult to be human Striving to become human!
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carrottop Joined: 09/21/10 Posts: 36	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM How much are you eating on a daily basis? I've had kidney stones twice and am always looking for ways to incorporate foods and supplements into my diet so that I don't have another attack. I'd not heard of nutritional yeast as a remedy, but it does make sense. I eat it rarely, but could certainly start using it more often.
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LaniMuelrath Joined: 12/30/09 Location: California Posts: 557	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:34 AM 3faithful wrote: I'm very new at all this but have been following the 21-day kickstart faithfully for the last 10 days. The good: I'm positively amazed at how much energy I have and I feel "lighter" in a hard-to-explain way. The bad - having to plan my meals in advance (so I have the right food in the house)and living with a caveman and 14 year old triplets that subscribe to his ideas about meat. but that's a different topic! I'm investigating new recipes and often see "nutritional yeast" listed as an ingredient. I've also read posts that people sprinkle it on their food. What is it and what does it taste like? I'm seeing vegankitty did a great job of answering your question yet I had to step in and congratulate you on taking a stand for yourself no matter what those around you are eating. This should make the more faint-of-heart become inspired! Nice work! Lani Facebook Celebrity Tips Page Lani Muelrath, M.A. CGFI, CPBN the Plant-Based Fitness Expert McDougall Health & Medical Center 5 Minute Fitness & Plant-based Blueprint www
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tinabean Joined: 09/08/10 Location: Pasadena, TX Posts: 113	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:37 AM Both Red Star and Bragg's makes it, although I think the manufacturer of Red Star might have changed the name in recent years. I can't be sure since I usually buy it out of the bulk bin at Whole Foods. Here in the Houston area stores I find it on the end of the bulk aisle in one of the bottom bins - but you can ask an employee since it's usually not labelled. I think you can also buy it in bulk online. I'm pretty sure I've seen it in the Amazon marketplace. They definitely have it in the seasoning-size bottles. It is NOT the same as Brewer's yeast (which I bought the first time by mistake).
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vegankitty Joined: 12/29/10 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 109	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:47 AM Hi carrottop! I sprinkle about a tablespoon and half over my broccoli. I am not saying it is a remedy but I read on Dr. Fuhrman's forums regarding that incorporating additional b6 in your diet (in addition to the multivitamin) can be beneficial. Hence I have started making a conscious effort. Also, it gives me some additional b12 just in case I am not absorbing enough! (I do not eat cold cereals which might have some b12). It is easy to be mankind, Difficult to be human Striving to become human!
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peacefirevegan Joined: 03/01/11 Location: CANADA Posts: 48	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM mmmmm...Nutritional Yeast...and it has nothing to do with brewers yeast...it takes a lot of convincing to non vegan that there is NO YEAST in Nutritional Yeast...I believe is comes from beet root - maybe Susan can verify.... Love, Live, Laugh
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3faithful Joined: 09/14/11 Posts: 8	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:25 PM Lani, I'm definitely not the poster-child for the faint-of-heart but rather the queen of compromise. If raising triplets and living with the caveman has taught me anything, it's to choose my battles. I'm the main cook at home and I'm lucky that they will eat pretty much what I make, within limits - the limit being 2 meatless dinners per week, not on consectutive days. Pasta is the easiest. The other days I cook meat for them - sometimes in the crockpot or on the grill, whatever is easiest for me. I can cook it for them and not eat it, if that means there is peace in the house.
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donnamae Joined: 09/01/11 Posts: 35	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:45 PM Oh how I wish (and Lani knows this because I bug her all the time on 'what is this'!!) there was a vegan book with all the food items listed, what they are used for and where to get them. As for nutritional yeast, I have a can of it. Have I used it -- no. I don't know what to do with it, just heard it was good, got it and here it sits!!! I've said before I am the new vegan marketers dream child - I heard of something and get it and then am perplexed as to what to do with it!!! Anyway, I was glad to read the comments -- now maybe I'll open that sucker can up and do something with it before the little bugs get it!! Thank you for asking this question!! And have you ever heard of wheat berries?? I learned about those this morning!!! Learning learning learning!! But loving it.
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theodore Joined: 09/16/10 Posts: 643	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:01 PM . Never make assumptions. You'll end up being an A**, and the UMP will TION you. -- Coach Smiley -- Fresh Prince of Bel Air
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vegankitty Joined: 12/29/10 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 109	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM I can't give up my greens and beans . I am avoiding spinach, tomato, swiss chard for now but I am so convinced on his plant based diet that I wouldn't give it up for anything! I am making sure I am drinking enough water (I hardly drank even 2 full glasses before my encounter with Kidney stone! ) It is easy to be mankind, Difficult to be human Striving to become human!
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2072	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM donnamae wrote: Oh how I wish (and Lani knows this because I bug her all the time on 'what is this'!!) there was a vegan book with all the food items listed, what they are used for and where to get them. As for nutritional yeast, I have a can of it. Have I used it -- no. I don't know what to do with it, just heard it was good, got it and here it sits!!! I've said before I am the new vegan marketers dream child - I heard of something and get it and then am perplexed as to what to do with it!!! Anyway, I was glad to read the comments -- now maybe I'll open that sucker can up and do something with it before the little bugs get it!! Thank you for asking this question!! And have you ever heard of wheat berries?? I learned about those this morning!!! Learning learning learning!! But loving it. Nutritional yeast (some folks call it "nooch" LOL) is great for making a not-cheese sauce for mac'n'cheese or nachos or alfredo. Wheat berries are what flour comes from. We buy them in 25 lb sacks to grind our own REAL whole wheat fresh as we need it (it gets used within 36 hours of grinding and stays in the fridge the whole time - that is, whatever portion isn't used immediately is refrigerated until it gets used) They can be sprouted for wheatgrass (some folks like wheatgrass in their green smoothies and such); they can be soaked and cooked kind of like rice; they can be ground into flour. Generally useful (provided you aren't gluten intolerant). --Deb R
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theodore Joined: 09/16/10 Posts: 643	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 2:19 PM . Never make assumptions. You'll end up being an A**, and the UMP will TION you. -- Coach Smiley -- Fresh Prince of Bel Air
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donnamae Joined: 09/01/11 Posts: 35	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM Deb, as usual you come to my rescue!! I'm impressed - grinding your own wheat!! I've got a long way to go. And I am going to check out wheat berries tomorrow! (And I don't want to read the stuff about kidney stones because I will totally be in a state of confusion!!!) Thanks Deb (insert heart icon here!!)
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2072	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 2:31 PM donnamae wrote: Deb, as usual you come to my rescue!! I'm impressed - grinding your own wheat!! I've got a long way to go. And I am going to check out wheat berries tomorrow! (And I don't want to read the stuff about kidney stones because I will totally be in a state of confusion!!!) Thanks Deb (insert heart icon here!!) Freshly ground popcorn makes the best cornmeal - cornbread that needs no other sweetener to be sweet! We started grinding our own wheat several years ago - we saw some data that indicated that freshly ground wheat has a slightly different glycemic effect for some folks (it's slightly higher in protein apparently). We researched for a few years, including cost benefit analysis (yes, I can be a bit anal about data and research). But, it has been awesome! Just knowing that the oils in the grain haven't been sitting around 'aging' on the grocery shelf for some unknown time makes it a good deal. Hubby (the home chef) makes pretty much all grain products from scratch (he even makes bagels! and no, he's not for sale! :wink --Deb R
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deborahjm Joined: 09/06/11 Posts: 162	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM tinabean wrote: I can't be sure since I usually buy it out of the bulk bin at Whole Foods. I also purchase it at Whole Foods in Houston in the bulk bins. The HEB in Clear Lake carried it for a while, but recently discontinued it. My dogs are hooked on it too.
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donnamae Joined: 09/01/11 Posts: 35	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 3:22 PM hs hs - Deb, I wouldn't want to 'buy' him - but maybe rent him for a week or two!!! My hubby is unknowingly doing this way of eating (he hasn't balked too much!!) but getting him to grind wheat would be a tad of a stretch!!! Although he ate couscous the other night and loved it! He picked it out of the salad and said what's this? I held my breath waiting for him to say good or bad! It was good.
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tinabean Joined: 09/08/10 Location: Pasadena, TX Posts: 113	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 6:57 PM @deborahjm - Kroger recently started carrying the Bragg nooch, but it's not in bulk. And that was at one of the ones in Pasadena! I heard a rumor that Clear Lake is going to get a WF. I've so got my fingers crossed on that one! Tired of commuting for groceries @Theodore & Kitty - you could try low-oxalate greens if that's a concern. You'll get more calcium out of them that way, too. I think collard, mustard & turnip are all low-oxalate.
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deborahjm Joined: 09/06/11 Posts: 162	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 9:29 PM tinabean wrote: @deborahjm I heard a rumor that Clear Lake is going to get a WF. I've so got my fingers crossed on that one! Tired of commuting for groceries Oh, that would be wonderful! I've often said that I thought Clear Lake should have one.
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2072	RE: Nutritional Yeast Posted Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 8:33 AM donnamae wrote: hs hs - Deb, I wouldn't want to 'buy' him - but maybe rent him for a week or two!!! My hubby is unknowingly doing this way of eating (he hasn't balked too much!!) but getting him to grind wheat would be a tad of a stretch!!! Although he ate couscous the other night and loved it! He picked it out of the salad and said what's this? I held my breath waiting for him to say good or bad! It was good. LOL He is and always has been the main household chef. He LOVES creating things, experimenting with new things, playing with known recipes in new ways, etc. Many years ago now (somewhere around 15 years or so), he was going to college full time, I was working to pay the bills, and we had moved from the East Coast (I grew up about 45 miles west of NYC - of course, that took over an hour to drive in LOL) to OKC. At that time, there were few if any places to get fresh REAL bagels (which I grew up on - bagels from a bagel bakery so fresh and hot that the cream cheese would melt). So, my darling husband got out the cookbooks and found a recipe. Making dough products (bagels, tortillas, bread) became his Saturday morning respite from his college coursework - it was a very physical and almost Zen-like process compared to the mostly sedentary thinking processes of his classes. As we learned more about foods, we changed things. We went from standard grocery store flour to unbleached flour to whole wheat flour to whole wheat stored in the fridge at the natural foods market to grinding our own - and along the way, we moved back to the East Coast but by then we were 'hooked' on real fresh whole grain baked goods. Even my now-13 yr old won't touch the standard white bread stuff - not even for pizza! He'd rather just have a salad than to have white flour crust pizza (unless it's a critical "food required" situation and even then, he'll eat just the minimum to get by) --Deb R
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