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yeast

[yeest] / yist /
NOUN
leaven
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NOUN
foam
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NOUN
rising agent
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Perhaps the best-known examples of fermentation are in baking and brewing, where yeast breaks down sugar into ethanol and carbon dioxide.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

"If you tell anyone you have yeast, they immediately ask: can we use it for bread?"

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

"What we didn't expect to find was yeast," lead study author Mohamed Sarhan of the Eurac Research institute in the Italian city of Bolzano told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

To test this idea, Zhang's team compared two groups of yeast over 800 generations.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

She was messing around with yeast in the kitchen.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart




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