Do you use nutritional yeast?

[blaze]

I'd never heard of it before.

Rather than hijack Ruby Reason's asparagus thread... I decided to ask the question in a new thread.

How do you use it?

Why do you use it?

[WhollyHeretic]

1. It's very big in vegan cooking. They often use it as a substitute cheese flavor

I have used it in soup before.

[blaze]

2. So you use it for flavoring?

Can you taste it?

Or do you use it for nutritional value only?

[WhollyHeretic]

3. People use it for both. It's got sort of a cheesy flavor and it has protein and B vitamins

Both very important to vegans.

[WhollyHeretic]

4. Vegan mac n' cheese is one of it's most popular uses

http://epicureanvegan.com/2010/05/23/creamy-macaroni-and-cashew-cheese/

[Warpy]

5. Nutritional yeast is quite different from brewer's yeast used for vitamins

It's grown especially to have a mild flavor. It does taste mildly cheese like and is quite good on popcorn.

[noamnety]

6. My vegan kid pushed it on me a few times.

All of her cooking is stellar. I've had her fake homemade cheese before and it was good (and I'm a cheese snob). I wouldn't have bought it for myself though except that I had a mother-daughter bonding moment with her last year making kale chips even though I hate kale. I realized I love it as chips though! The bitterness was gone when it was baked crispy. That first batch was just with oil, salt and pepper.

Then I planted kale in my garden and found a recipe for the chips rubbing them with oil, balsamic vinegar and nutritional yeast before baking. It did give a cheese flavor to it but not the gooeyness (gooiness?) that would interfere with the crispness. Then I went on a diet with no cheese allowed 6 days a week, and that helped me break the cheese addiction - just like sucking on straws can help when you are breaking the physical addiction to smoking. I was adding it to a bunch of vegetables and sprinkling it on salads for flavor. I like that it's healthy, but I use it more like an additional spice in my bag of tricks now anytime I want the cheese flavor without the cheese bulk or texture.

[eridani]

7. I'd really like to try that kale thing--DH is on coumadin unfortunately.

[hairy krishna]

9. Why doesn't he start taking herbs and food which are natural blood-thinners

instead of avoiding kale?

[eridani]

10. Because "natural" means that actual active ingredients cannot be measured

--in any meaningful way. If this were Germany, where natural products are as intensively regulated for active ingredient content as regular pharmaceuticals, it would be a different ballgame.

I have taken to diluting broccoli, brussels sprouts and cabbage with other veggies, but kale and spinach are extremely high in Vitamin K and are big no-nos.

[trolling4dollaz]

11. But doesn't it make sense to find out why his blood is not thin enough

and overreacts to Vitamin K? Taking meds and avoiding these most healthful of veggies seems upside down.

[eridani]

12. Not thin enough to cope with cardiac arrhythmia resulting from Grave's disease

Vitamin K counteracts the effects of coumadin, which he must take. A good friend of ours with a similar condition quit taking coumadin because of the side effects, and just had a stroke as a result. No thanks.

[Phentex]

13. PPRd...

MIRT is zapping trolls before we can boil water!

[50 shades of grey]

14. Boy, you know for certain that I am a troll, eh?

(And for some, it's more like nuking water! )

[Phentex]

16. I am not a boy...

but deep down I am so pleased that trolls like the Cooking and Baking Group.

[50 shades of grey]

15. I am saying that if he got to the root of the Grave's dis-ease

(and possibly used garlic and other herbs/foods--not supplements, mind you--then he could possibly be able to consume these nutritious foods, get off the meds, and eat nutritional yeast! )

[eridani]

17. Cut the bullshit, please

The root of Grave's disease is well known, and the treatment involves shutting down the thyroid gland completely. Even after that happens, cardiac arrhythmia remains, and the only way of avoiding dying from a stroke is taking coumadin. Quackery is not a mission of the C&B group.

[i want to tell u]

18. This is the last post I will make to you on the subject

I was not clear of the "well-known" cause of Graves disease so I looked it up. I knew someone who got it after abusing crack and sure enough, the information mentions stimulants. But what I find so interesting is that they call it an auto-immune disease. And as you probably know, there are many areas of the body in which this manifests. But the real focus shouldn't be WHERE the imbalance is occurring but the fact that the body is attacking itself. And leaky gut seems to be at the root of it all. Any sort of malfunction with digestion may be the culprit. I wonder if your husband went off all animal products, gluten, and processed foods (including refined oils) if his condition would improve.

[Phentex]

19. This is true example of a concern troll!...

Thank you Dr. PPR!

[freshwest]

20. I had no idea. I've got to check that out.

[surrealAmerican]

8. I haven't used it in many years.

We used to put it on popcorn along with some other seasonings. It added a sort of savory flavor.