Yeast

Yeast is a microscopic organism that feeds on carbohydrates in flour, converting them into alcohol and carbon dioxide in a process called fermentation. Yeast makes bread rise and fill it with air pockets , which make the bread light and fluffly.

At a temperatures of about 30-35 degrees C, Yeast finds its favorable environment to reproduce itself and decomposes the starch, by means of enzyme, the ZIMASIS, in molecules of ETHANOL (CH3-CH2-OH) and CARBON DIOXIDE (CO2)

 

Click on the name of an ingredient below to know more about it: