Yeast & Bread-making

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Compressed yeast

Highly practical, crumbled yeast is generally used in the industrialized nations.
Lesaffre's l'hirondelle brand of compressed yeast is the variety most widely used throughout the world. It contains between 28 and 35% solids. Extremely crumbly, it can easily be added during mixing.
Stored cool at between 0° and 10 °C, it retains all of its characteristics up until the use-by date shown on the packaging.
It is marketed in compact blocks of 500g or 1 kg. Its consistency and colour vary according to the country concerned.

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Lesaffre is seen as a reference in the yeast and bread-making fields. Its knowledge of yeast and its expertise in the fermentation have encouraged the Lesaffre group to establish a presence in the emerging human and animal nutrition markets.