Nutritional Yeast—Super Supplement or Neurotoxin? "the parent company of Red Star Yeast, Sensient Technologies, "is a leading manufacturer of flavors, flavor systems, and flavor enhancers…" Let’s add up a few things so far. 1) MSG, a well-known flavor enhancer, is manufactured by a fermentation process utilizing sugar beet or cane molasses. 2) Red Star Nutritional Yeast is manufactured by a fermentation process utilizing sugar beet or cane molasses. 3) The parent company of Red Star Yeast, Sensient Technologies, is a world leader in the manufacture of "flavor enhancers". Let’s see where this takes us. (Please notice this page from Sensient Technologies.) Strangely enough, Sensient Technologies recently "divested" Red Star Yeast, Inc., by selling it to LeSaffre, a French yeast manufacturing conglomerate. However, Sensient remained the parent to MinnDak Yeast Company, which is co-owned by Sensient and Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, based in Wahpeton, SD, a sugar beet growers cooperative that processes beets into sugar and molasses. "LeSaffre is the worlds largest manufacturer of yeast and yeast extracts, used as nutritional supplements, flavor enhancers, dough conditioners, and fermentation catalysts." As noted, the new French parent to Red Star Yeast is also in the flavor enhancing business. (See: lesaffre/default_eng.asp). This statement from the Lesaffre web site, under "Natural flavour reinforcement": ". . .offers its food industry customers several lines of CLEAN LABEL yeast extract with specific flavour profiles (meat notes, milk and milk product notes, notes of cooked, grilled or roasted ingredients, etc…) and flavour- enhancing properties (UMAMI taste).""
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:29:05 +0000
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