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nutritional yeast

nutritional yeast noun: a pale yellow preparation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, often used as a nutritional supplement and flavoring by vegetarians and vegans due to its high protein content and selection of B vitamins.

nutritional yeast: a pale yellow preparation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, often used as a nutritional...
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Noun

nutritional yeast (countable and uncountable, plural nutritional yeasts)

  1. A pale yellow preparation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, often used as a nutritional supplement and flavoring by vegetarians and vegans due to its high protein content and selection of B vitamins.

Forms of nutritional yeast

pluralnutritional yeasts

Questions about nutritional yeast

What does nutritional yeast mean?
Nutritional yeast means a pale yellow preparation of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, often used as a nutritional supplement and flavoring by vegetarians and vegans due to its high protein content and selection of B vitamins.
What part of speech is nutritional yeast?
Nutritional yeast is a noun.
What is the plural of nutritional yeast?
The plural of nutritional yeast is nutritional yeasts.

Words near nutritional yeast in the dictionary

  1. nutritarianism
  2. nutritarians
  3. nutritial
  4. nutrition
  5. nutritional
  6. nutritional yeast
  7. nutritional yeasts
  8. nutritionalist
  9. nutritionalists
  10. nutritionally
  11. nutritionism

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