yeast

Inside Mohammed al-Fateh's bakery in Khartoum, workers mixed flour, water and yeast into a thick dough, which they divided into round discs and slid into the oven on long wooden paddles.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Vitamin D2, also called ergocalciferol, is commonly produced from fungi or yeast exposed to ultraviolet light.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Behind the bar, yeast busily converted sugars into alcohol inside giant stainless steel fermentation tanks.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Baker's yeast can now generate vanilla flavoring from plant biomass.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

But something had gone wrong—maybe Luke hadn’t used enough yeast, or he’d kneaded the dough too much or too little—and the loaves had turned out flat.

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The scientists discovered four different yeasts that can survive sub-zero temperatures in Oetzi's guts, skin and "brownish" water that melted off his body when he was partially unfrozen.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

I prefer unbleached flour when dealing with those types of yeasts.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025

They are found in many organisms, including bacteria, yeasts, humans, mice, fruit flies and frogs.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

“My kind of first feeling here is that there are unsurveyed environments in China where these yeasts dwell, and that these two patients have been unlucky enough to be exposed.”

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 19, 2024

The spores of various yeasts are floating in the air just about everywhere.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan