The 900 Billion dollar fungus

Blog.oup ^ | February, 2018 | Nicholas Money

[Fungi]

I never post, but this is noteworthy. Brewer's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is responsible for five percent of our gross domestic product. From bread to beer and beyond, this fungus has an incredible impact on our lives. Fungi are important!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

So Fungi, you’re raking in the dough.

[TXnMA]

LOL! When I read the intro, I thought, "I really ought to ping fungi to this!" ...then I saw who posted it...

Silly me! '-)

[RegulatorCountry]

Add in eradication of yeast, such as personal hygiene products and antibiotics, and surely we’re talking 6%.

[shanover]

I am going to reaffirm my interest in brewing beer again.

[gaijin]

Kombucha:

to make it you use a “SCOBY”:

Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria (and) YEAST..!

(a scoby looks like a white hocky puck...buy it off of Ebay)

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

There’s a fungus amongus.

[Lean-Right]

Fungi will rise to the occasion...
but he’s gotta stay warm. Fungi
can also be very flatulent.

[EinNYC]

And the morel of the story is...?

[Aliska]

There's one brand only that I used to like to shake up in milk, often with another certain brand of protein powder. Yeast can give you gas but it didn't bother me back then.

There are so many new "craft beer" makers around here; they probably use lots of it.

I had no idea it had that big of a percentage of our GNP.

And now this guy on Coast to Coast is freaking people out about gluten.

What is wrong with it? Unless you have celiac disease which isn't very prevalent, I can't imagine giving it up.

I note there are so many old people who live well into their 90's, and I know for certain that they lived all their lives on lots of bakery and white flour even.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CxU2Jcty_U

[Calvin Locke]

Packaged yeast was a WWII-DOD funded creation. The French were very stingy with their yeast (unlike the Italians and Belgian/Luxembourgers...), and the DOD needed a way to provide it to field kitchens.

It was extruded and dried to about 8% moisture, and packaged.

[reg45]

The human race has survived for millennia on flour with gluten. So suck it up gluten avoiders.

[RightGeek]

I'll drink to that!

[moovova]

Spore lore.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[Aliska]

They ate it in biblical times and like you said millennia before.

I get mad at people who obsess about food supplements or crazy diets unless it's a serious health problem which it usually just to lose weight or they think it's healthier.

I do concede that there are sometimes at least one or a very few vitamins and minerals that turn people around. Otherwise it's like an addiction.

[null and void]

And the morel of the story is...?

Fungus is nothing to be truffled with...

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Thank you. I recall decades ago that some relatives would use that phrase. Now I know where they got it from. You learn something new every day!

[SaveFerris]

I used to add it to my drink every morning when I was lifting weights. I eventually had to eliminate it from my diet.

Mornings would be milk, bananas, strawberries or blueberries, a raw egg and some brewer’s yeast powder. All into the blender with a squirt of honey.

By the time lunch came around, my metabolism was at 7,000 rpm.