We all encounter yeast in our day to day life. Yeast is everywhere and man has found very many uses for it. But since it is an organism capable of virulence; control is lost and the yeast causes infection and makes man sick. It is therefore beneficial if we all first understand just exactly what we are dealing with here…
What is yeast?
Dutch naturalist Antoine van Leeuwenhoek in 1680 was the first to microscopically find the existence of these organisms but of course when he did find them he believed them to be non living. It was only 177 years later in 1857 that our greatest Louis Pasteur the French microbiologist who discovered the role of yeast in the production of alcohol.
“Yeast” is derived from the Old English gist, gyst, and also from the Indo-European root, it means to boil, foam, or bubble. One of the earliest domesticated organisms…..
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