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...that the Union Government had decided to go into the manufacture of the new yeast-food (TIME, Aug. 9) in a big way. The Natal sugar industry, which annually dumps 130,000 tons of unwanted molasses into the Indian Ocean, will use this by-product for the production of Torula utilis. A fortnight ago a special plane from London flew the British yeast-food culture to Capetown where a pilot-plant is now operating experimentally. Before big-scale production begins, the South African Government intends consulting the St. Louis geneticist, Dr. Carl Lindegren, on the subject of flavours...
Crossbreeding Tells. Three years ago, however, a British chemist named A. C. Thaysen began to explore yeast's possibilities as a straight food. He developed a new strain (from a variety called Torula utilis) with a pleasant, nutty flavor, so cheap to produce (10? a lb.) that the British Government has started building a plant in Jamaica to make 2,000 tons of Thaysen's "food yeast" a year.* Chemist Thaysen at most expected to serve his yeast in concentrated doses to supplement a poor diet; despite its pleasant flavor, he did not conceive of Torula utilis...
...Germans also know about Torula utilis, but lack the sugar to produce it in quantity...
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