Our digestive system is designed to break down the complex molecules in food and release the essential nutrients for absorption.

It makes sense, then to take vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients in a form close to true food, which the body will both recognise and use efficiently, rather than as isolated vitamins or minerals.

The food yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been part of our diet almost since time began. It swells bread, brews beer and bubbles champagne. It has been studied more than any other living thing on the planet because of its similarity to more complex human cells. It is an amazing little microbe, which can also transform isolated nutrients into food by fermentation. It is the key to true food-based nutrition.

Feeding Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with natural whole foods in a special fermentation process, allows the yeast to digest proteins and incorporate the nutrients from the growth medium into its cell. Fermentation is a living process akin to growing a plant and needs nutrients, warmth and water, over a period of many hours. Once the growing phase is complete, the cell walls are broken down with fruit enzymes from pineapple and papaya to release the nutrients from within each cell.

This final step aids digestion but is most important for those of us who are sensitive to yeasts. Some people have an allergic response to yeast but the allergen, which causes an allergic response, is a protein on the yeast cell wall and this is broken down by the enzymes and the protein’s ability to evoke an allergic response is lost.

The resulting ‘soup’ is then dried to a powder ready for tablet or capsule manufacture. This whole food is rich in B vitamins, betaglucans, inositol, choline, amino acids, glutathione and phytonutrients, naturally present in fermented yeast.

This whole food is the important basis for all True Food® products to which other key vitamins and minerals are added.