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@icyfroth wrote:

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@tezza2844 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@debra9275 wrote:

from your article

 

 

“But there are a lot of products that contain yeast and it’s all a bit of a beat up. We’re not overly concerned about it at all in our position,” he told Guardian Australia.

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So? "it's a bit of a beat up" is not the same as "untrue". 

 

The news industry thrives on "beat-ups".

 

 

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Vegemite is made from yeast, but the yeast cells are autolysed (broken) and killed with heat during the process. It could not start a fermentation.

— Dr Janet Paterson, UNSW Food Science Department, 14th August, 2015

 

from media watch report

 

Dr Vickers, from the University of Queensland, said the heat needed to make Vegemite would probably kill off all the yeast, and the high salt content of the product would further reduce chances that any yeast was alive.

"There is nothing alive in the Vegemite that you can use to make beer with," she said.

She said there was a slim chance that Vegemite could be added to home brew to provide nutrients to assist alcohol production, but there were other cheaper options around that would do the same job.

 

ABC news

 

 

Seems like the claim falls into the not true category as well a beat up

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So QLD crime co-ordinator Geoff Marsh and a QLD Headmaster from one of the schools in the Indigenous community there are lying, then, are they?

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Even though there is no active yeast in Vegemite, it can still be used as a substrate for other microorganisms that could ferment the sugars and, ultimately, produce alcohol. That’s true of any sugar-containing food, including fruit and fruit juices.

http://theconversation.com/yes-you-can-make-alcohol-from-vegemite-but-46010