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    Importance of Yeast

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    Yeasts have significant economic value and are used in many industries. They are important in food production through processes like bread making and alcohol fermentation. Yeast is also used as a nutritional supplement and in the brewing industry to produce beers and wines. While yeast provides benefits, it can also cause disadvantages like food spoilage, intoxication, and infections in humans. Yeasts are also useful in fields like biotechnology, molecular genetics, environmental remediation and medicine.

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    Yeasts have significant economic value and are used in many industries. They are important in food production through processes like bread making and alcohol fermentation. Yeast is also used as a nutritional supplement and in the brewing industry to produce beers and wines. While yeast provides benefits, it can also cause disadvantages like food spoilage, intoxication, and infections in humans. Yeasts are also useful in fields like biotechnology, molecular genetics, environmental remediation and medicine.

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    Yeasts have significant economic value and are used in many industries. They are important in food production through processes like bread making and alcohol fermentation. Yeast is also used as a nutritional supplement and in the brewing industry to produce beers and wines. While yeast provides benefits, it can also cause disadvantages like food spoilage, intoxication, and infections in humans. Yeasts are also useful in fields like biotechnology, molecular genetics, environmental remediation and medicine.

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    Yeasts have significant economic value and are used in many industries. They are important in food production through processes like bread making and alcohol fermentation. Yeast is also used as a nutritional supplement and in the brewing industry to produce beers and wines. While yeast provides benefits, it can also cause disadvantages like food spoilage, intoxication, and infections in humans. Yeasts are also useful in fields like biotechnology, molecular genetics, environmental remediation and medicine.

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    Yeast has many economic and beneficial uses including in bread making, alcohol production, and as a nutritional supplement. However, it can also cause infections, food spoilage, and intoxication.

    Some main uses of yeast include bread making, alcohol production, as a nutritional supplement, in medicine, and in biotechnology and molecular genetics research.

    In the food industry, yeast is used for bread making, flavoring bread, producing alcohol through fermentation of substances like potatoes and grains, and as a nutritional supplement high in proteins and vitamins.

    Importance of Yeast

    The yeasts have a lot of economic value to the mankind. They have certain beneficial as well as harmful activities.

    Beneficial uses: 1) Food Industry

    Bread Making: For the manufacture of bread, yeast is mixed with white flour, . The process of fermentation starts .The bread swells up and becomes spongy due to the pressure exerted by accumulated carbon dioxide

    Flavor and quality of bread is attained by selecting different strains of yeast

    Production of alcohol:

    Ethyl alcohol is manufactured by the fermentation of potatoes, cereals, molasses etc. C6H1206 + Yeast zymase > 2C2H5OH + 2C02 (Glucose) Fermentation (ethyl alcohol) + (carbon dioxide)

    Fermentation:
    Breakdown of starch and sugar by yeast into carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol in the absence of oxygen is called alcoholic fermentation. The alcohol is the major ingredient in brewing industry.

    Yeast as a source of food:

    Yeast contains nutritive substances and proteins in sufficient quantities. Dried yeast cells contain 40 - 50% of protein. Some strains of yeast have considerable amount of fat.

    As Food Supplements
    Yeast as a source of Vitamins

    with ultra-violet rays, they produce Vitamin - D Yeast is used in the preparation of Vitamin - B complex tablets. When yeast cells are irradiated

    2) Use in Brewing Industry

    Beer: Yeast is added to malted grains and allowed to ferment . The type of yeast used will affect the type and flavor of beer produced. Commonly used Yeast is S. Cerevisiae, also known as a top fermenting or top cropping yeast.

    Use in Brewing Industry

    Wine: Yeast is naturally present on the skins of grapes and can be used to naturally ferment grape juice into wine. There are many different strains of S. Cerevisiae and each will produce a unique flavor characteristic in a finished wine.

    3) Nutrition:

    Yeast is a good source of protein, B vitamins, and minerals. Yeast intended as a nutritional supplement is often sold as nutritional yeast or yeast extract.

    4) Use in Medicine

    Lowering high cholesterol. Research showed that taking a specific red yeast product for two to three months could significantly lower total and bad cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein (LDL) They are also utilized in medicine as a source of enzymes

    Medical Use

    Yeast causes Lowering of high cholesterol and triglyceride levels caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease (AIDS).

    5) Yeast and biotechnology:

    Yeast belongs to traditional biotechnology In the industry of fermentation, yeast is used not only in food industries to make bread, wine and beer, but also in non-food industries, such as the Biofuel industry, to produce ethanol.

    6) Use in Molecular Genetics

    Yeasts are Model organisms in genetics. Used as Synthetic pathways for antibiotics or other molecules of interest . Used in Gene Therapy

    7) Cleansing of Environment
    Yeast protects and cleans the environment by following ways: 1) Pollution cleanup 2) Waste recycling 3) Crop protection 4) Many Yeasts live symbiotically in organisms. 5) Bioremediation

    Disadvantages:
    1) YEAST & WEIGHT LOSS Yeast infections can range in severity from minor discomfort to a life-threatening ailment, depending on your immune system, the type of yeast, the location of the yeast and the way you combat it

    2 ) HAIR LOSS DUE TO RED YEAST RICE


    Red yeast rice is a culture of the yeast, grown on rice and consumed as food, may cause hair loss

    3) Food spoilage

    During their growth, yeasts metabolize some food components ( sucrose, ethanol, acetic acid) and produce metabolic end products. This causes the physical, chemical, and sensible properties of a food to change, and the food is spoiled

    4) Intoxication

    Yeasts cause Intoxication of food and imbibed drinks

    5) Resistant

    Yeasts can tolerate very high temperature, hence difficult to check their reproduction

    6) Plant Pathogens

    Certain species of Yeast are plant pathogens and decrease crop production

    7) Animal Diseases

    Some species cause skin, hair and nail infections in humans e.g. Candida Albicans Yeasts cause respiratory diseases in humans e.g.Aspergilus

    References

    http://foodreference.about.com/od/Ingredient s_Basics/a/What-Is-Yeast.htm http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_econ omic_importance_of_yeast#ixzz26GjuRCFn http://www.ehow.com/about_5366675_roleyeast-breadmaking.html http://www.livestrong.com/article/286403yeast-weight-loss/

    References

    http://www.lesaffrehumancare.com/aboutlesaffre-human-care/yeasts-andbiotechnology/biotechnology-fields-ofapplication.html http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/MarketReports/yeast-industry-268.html www.wikipedia.org.com www.Google.com

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    Syed Imran Abbas Shah. Punjab,Pakistan

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