+1 862 207 3288 Various products such as different kinds of alcoholic beverages, cheese, curds, yogurt, single cell protein etc., can be obtained from the fermentation of yeast.
Various kinds of alcoholic beverages can be produced on commercial basis by using different media and definite types of yeast. e.g., Beer can be produced by using barley flour and starch. Similarly ‘rum’ and whisky can be produced by using black strip liquor (molasses) recovered from paper industry and using maize flour and mustard respectively. Curds is prepared from concentrated milk by using yeast and the lactobacilli type of bacteria, while Yougurt is prepared from similar milk by using yeast and a fungus that imparts flavour to it. Cheese and ‘Paneer’ can be prepared by the fermentation of dehydrated curds (curds separated from whey) by yeast and other fungi. Yeast is used for the production of single cell protein.
Yeast is of no use in any way in the commercial production of components of vitamin B-complex and other vitamins. However, Such vitamins are present in addition to proteins and carbohydrates in the yeast extract which is very nutritive.
