yeast and vegans/ vegetarians

[mollykins]

Can vegetarians or even vegans eat food with yeast in it?

[ummmm]

Yes.

[chelle7272]

It's a fungus so strictly speaking it is not vegan but is vegetarian.

[missnemesis]

?

[mollykins]

if somethings vegan, then a vegetarian can eat it aswell, but not always the other way round.

[mike11111]

If you are as good at biology as you claim to be I thought you would have known the answer to that automatically.

[ummmm]

How is fungus not vegan?

[ethandron]

apparently not all:
http://www.ivu.org/faq/definitions.html

[ummmm]

Some vegans 'refuse' to eat yeast. Doesn't mean they can't.

[ethandron]

maybe it's a bit like catholics and contraception, you take from it what you want and what fits in with your life and beliefs.

[chelle7272]

Yes my apologies ummmm - don't know what I was thinking there! I'll blame lack of sleep :-/

[ummmm]

Lol Eth....but I can't see why anyone would refuse to eat it. Id doesn't come from an animal.

[mollykins]

I jsut got confused because my friend said she can't eat yeasty stuff, but it turns out that aswell as being a vegan, her doctors put her on a yeast free and low sugar diet.

[ethandron]

no ummm, i don't understand it either. i tried reading up on it but i can't actually find out WHY they don't, just that some don't. i can kind of understand why not honey, but even that's a bit difficult. it's probably something to do with the process involved in making/harvesting/producing it.
(d'you think i'd be excommunicated for comparing catholics to vegans if i was catholic?)

[treetops1]

Has she got thrush ?

[mollykins]

No I don't think so, she has ME.

[Donquixote]

There are naturally occurring yeasts in the air around us all of the time, so everybody - vegan or otherwise - is ingesting yeasts whether they intend to or not.
So yes, vegans can eat yeast as they already will have been since the day they were born.