Questions tagged [yeast]

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Does eating yeast stop you from getting drunk?

This article claims that eating active yeast powder before drinking will mitigate the effects of alcohol, by breaking down the alcohol before it enters your blood stream. You see, what Owades knew was that active dry yeast has an enzyme in it…
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Does "Garbage Enzyme cleaner" contain enzymes?

There are many recipes which call for using fruit peel anaerobic fermentation process to make a concentrated enzyme cleaner solution. So the question arises that does this recipe really have those cleaning enzymes apart from the usual alcohol and…
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Does eating brewer’s yeast increase hair growth?

I heard this idea many times, here for example. Brewer’s yeast contains many vitamins, minerals and proteins that are indispensable for your hair. The lack of these nutrients, instead, may cause weak, dull and brittle hair fibre, prone to…
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