
Nutritional yeast is a lot easier to find these days, now that consumers have advanced past the hippie-dippy advertising of the 1960s and ’70s. With a rich golden hue and a nutty, salty, umami flavor reminiscent of cheese, nutritional yeast is more than just a seasoning. Not to be confused with the active yeast used in baking, nutritional yeast is a dried, inactive form of yeast marketed in flake form. Don’t be put off by the seasoning’s vague resemblance to fish food—it’s a delicious, nutritious, affordable pantry supplement that tastes great on pretty much everything.