Go Magazine | Issue 53

Tips & tricks Natural Road Savoury Yeast Flakes (aka Nooch) pack a nutritional punch to your diet. Nooch has a savoury, nutty flavour, making it a vegan- friendly seasoning. Here’s how to enjoy it: 1. Sprinkle yeast flakes on top of pasta instead of Parmesan. 2. Add a tablespoonful to risotto, quiches, scrambled eggs – anywhere you would normally use cheese. 3. Replace breadcrumbs with yeast flakes in veggie burgers, to hold the patty together. 4. Blend yeast flakes with nuts to make vegan ‘cheese’ sauce. 5. When making soups or sauces, replace cream with yeast flakes. 6. Stir yeast flakes into mashed potatoes instead of cheese. 7. Sprinkle yeast flakes on popcorn for a more nutritious snack.

Yay for nutritional yeast! Y east is a good energy booster because it is rich in so many important nutrients. Discover how it can benefit you. to help prevent diabetes in people with insulin resistance. This disorder makes the body less sensitive to the effects of insulin, so the pancreas has to produce more of it to keep blood sugar levels in check. Chromium may avert this progression by helping the body to use insulin more effectively.

Nutritional yeast is considered to be a probiotic and may help to replenish a healthy balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut, which in turn helps to both treat and prevent a wide range of digestive disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, and diarrhoea. By helping to enhance the immune system’s ability to defend the body against viruses and bacterial infections, it is a useful form of nutritional insurance for anyone whose diet is a little patchy.

Ingredients • 2 heads kale, rinsed, dried and stems removed • ¼ cup Organic Road Hulled Tahini • ¼ cup lemon juice • ¼ cup grapeseed oil • 2 tsp sriracha • ½ cup Natural Road Savoury Yeast Flakes • ¼ teaspoon Natural Road Himalayan salt finely ground Nutritional yeast ismade from Saccharomyces cerevisiae , a single-celled organism that can multiply at rapid rates. It is used in the production of beer and bread, and it is also a versatile nutritional supplement which can be easily added to juice, water, or food. Nutritional yeast is an excellent source of B-group vitamins, 16 amino acids, protein, and at least 14 different minerals, including iron, zinc, potassium, and the trace mineral selenium. It is a particularly rich source of chromium, which is thought

Vegan “cheesy” kale chips

Method Preheat oven to 100°C. Combine all ingredients except kale until thick paste forms. Rub “cheese” mix into leaves, covering both sides. Place in single layer on tray and bake for 1 hour. Turn leaves and then bake for a further 45 mins to 1 hour. Try and stop at just one!!!

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