{"id":26519,"date":"2026-04-15T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26519"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:15:01","slug":"what-is-nutritional-yeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/15\/what-is-nutritional-yeast\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Nutritional Yeast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/yeast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/yeast-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/yeast-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/yeast.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you know exactly what nutritional yeast is? An article by Reed Mangels PhD, RD, and Debra Wasserman in a previous issue of <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> answers this question and also provides the following vegan recipes containing nutritional yeast:<br \/>\nLemon Rice Soup<br \/>\nTempeh Mushroom Casserole<br \/>\nMushroom Gravy<br \/>\nTofu Pimento Spread<br \/>\nSpicy Nacho \u201cCheese\u201d Dip<br \/>\nTofu Dip<br \/>\nBaked Lima Beans<\/p>\n<p>Read the article here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2017issue3\/2017_issue3_nutritional_yeast.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2017issue3\/2017_issue3_nutritional_yeast.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> by visiting:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know exactly what nutritional yeast is? An article by Reed Mangels PhD, RD, and Debra Wasserman in a previous issue of Vegan Journal answers this question and also provides the following vegan recipes containing nutritional yeast: Lemon Rice Soup Tempeh Mushroom Casserole Mushroom Gravy Tofu Pimento Spread Spicy Nacho \u201cCheese\u201d Dip Tofu Dip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26521,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions\/26521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}