Lallemand Baker’s Yeast
Now a Natural Source of Vitamin D
Montreal, August 24,Lallemand offers all its bakery customers yet another way to help improve the “healthy appeal” of baked goods with making its line of baker’s yeast a natural and vegetarian source of vitamin D.
Lallemand/American Yeast a few years ago, responding to the increasing scientific studies regarding the benefits of vitamin D, developed a (patent pending) process to convert the sterols in the yeast to Vitamin D while allowing our yeast to keep its leavening and flavour contributions intact.
As of August 20th all our North American plants are equipped such that all our yeasts (fresh cream, fresh compressed and instant dried yeast) are now produced with this process making baked goods leavened with our yeasts already naturally richer in Vitamin D content, this at no extra cost for the bakeries. So, for example, in formulas using 1% Lallemand/Instaferm dry yeast, 3% Lallemand/ Eagle compressed yeast or 5% Lallemand/ American cream yeast, 100 g of bread or baked goods will provide 25 IU or 6.25% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin D.
We also offer a special ‘VitaD Plus’ instant dried yeast, which contains especially high levels of vitamin D. With the addition of ‘VitaD Plus”’ yeast, all baked goods can even naturally become “excellent” sources of vitamin D.
With any Lallemand baker’s yeast, all baked goods become natural and vegetarian sources of vitamin D and depending on levels of yeast used can become ‘good or ‘excellent’ sources.
About Lallemand
Lallemand Inc. is a privately held Canadian company specializing in the research, development, production, marketing and distribution of yeast and bacteria. Lallemand has approximately 2,200 employees located in more than 30 countries on all continents. Lallemand/American Yeast operates plants in the US in Memphis and Baltimore and in Montreal, Canada. For more information about Lallemand, please visit www.lallemand.com.
Lallemand Inc.
Jean Chagnon
President & CEO
+1-514-522-2133
info@lallemand.com
