Word: yeasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Africa's first meatless Wednesday this week came the news 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...
Government dietitians, all of whom have been officially given copies of TIME'S story to study, foresee plenty of use for all the food-yeast the nation is able to produce...
...fermented cactus juice from a Mexican century plant, is a malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness after the second...
Many experienced dermatologists last week read Dr. Straumfjord's claims with an interest tempered with skepticism. Most of them have fought acne with vaccine injections, soaps, yeast, X rays, ultraviolet rays, lectures against picking, antiseptics, astringents, medicated creams, diets, vitamins, hormones, encouragement. They have seen one case yield to X rays, another resist. To them acne is still one of medicine's most baffling mysteries...
...Yeast. Besides the food yeasts developed by Anheuser-Busch (TIME, Aug. 9), there is an immense potential source of food in ordinary brewer's mash: Burkholder believes it could be converted into 200 million Ib. of yeast a year, half of it protein and convertible into edible products...