Is yeast suitable for a vegan diet?

Question

Honestly, I'm not taking the proverbial, but I know many products are made using live yeast, so hence the question.

Answer 1

It would depend on how it was grown/produced.  I believe Energita to be vegan, it also doesnt encourage candida overgrowth in the gut too.

Answer 2

yes, yeast is a fungus. it was classified as such in the 1980 - very recent in biology terms. there are still plenty of innaccurate references to old research knocking about that creates confusion.

Answer 3

Yes it is. Vegans don't eat animals or animal products, and yeast is a single-celled organism that is classified as Fungi.

Vegans by definition only avoid animals and animal-derived ingredients. On a biological level, animals are very different from fungi and other kingdoms of life. The basic biological kingdoms of all life includes animals (that's what vegans avoid - the kingdom we humans belong to, and the only kingdom with nervous systems, brains and the ability to feel pain, emotion, etc).

Other than the animal kingdom, there are Plantae (plants), Fungi, Protoctista, Archaea, and Monera - at least according to American textbooks, I think the UK might divide the latter 3 into protista and bacteria and have 5 kingdoms instead. All the other kingdoms are vegan-friendly.

Answer 4

ofcourse as long as u like the taste of it

Answer 5

Only if they were free range yeast.

Answer 6

Yeast is a fungus, and as such I would classify it as vegan, although some people would disagree with this. Some vegans do not consume yeast.