Yeast and biotechnology: a multi-application product

Yeast belongs to traditional biotechnology. This microorganism often makes people think of the world of baking. However, it is not only used in this field.

In the industry of fermentation, yeast is used not only in food industries to make bread, wine and beer, but also in non-food industries, such as the biofuel industry, to produce ethanol.

Other applications are possible: in food (for instance, flavor building blocks and carriers), nutrition and health (dietary supplements, probiotics), medicine (biomedical research, model organisms in genetics, synthetic pathways for antibiotics or other molecules of interest), the environment (pollution cleanup, waste recycling, crop protection) and more.