Red Star Nutritional Yeast Mini Nutritional Yeast, 5 oz

I had read about nutritional yeast, and decided to give it a try for its health benefits. The package arrived in good condition, but I was not able to unscrew the cap, no matter how hard I tried! I work out, I have visible biceps, but I could not budge this lid! I finally had to cut the safety liner out through the holes in the cap. However, once that inconvenience was taken care of, I tasted the product, and I'm in love! It really does taste like a nice, medium-sharp cheddar. I made some eggplant fries and sprinkles this on, and it was like coating with Parmesan, only with a distinctly cheddar-like bite! The texture was also nice...a small flake which melts easily into a creamy substance, rather like...well....cheese! The serving size is way more than you would need to sprinkle on top of something. I weighed my serving, and stopped at 2 grams. That was plenty. I think I would only ever use the full serving if I were going to make some sort of cheese sauce. So this makes it a reasonable value on top of being very tasty!

This is the tastiest nutritional yeast I have found thus far. We have been using this brand for several years. I do not like the bitterness that some brands have. This is sweeter. Nutritional yeast is great for adding protein and vitamin B to dishes~especially for our vegetarian family members. It adds some thickness to broths and stirfry dishes and seems to add a bit of a cheesy flavor. It is great sprinkled on popped corn. I highly recommend this product~ it is at a good price that I paid fully as I am not benifitting from my review.

I have been buying 'good tasting nutritional yeast' for over 3 decades. I started using it in college to sprinkle on vegetable or on my popcorn (my 30 year old son will not eat popcorn unless it's made the way I make it with this....). I recently moved to a new city and have been challenged to find it in bulk close to my home. So I tried this. Just as good as the bulk nutritional yeast I've been using for years. Mind you it doesn't take just like cheese but has it's own lightly nutty taste and given I also put butter and a variety of other spices on whatever I'm putting it on ~ from cayenne, to Spike, to black pepper it tastes great to me!

The first time the company send my a wrong product, so I had to wait a bit longer to get what I had ordered. I'm satisfied with it: it blends well with e.g. smoothies, and has a pleasant taste. My daughter tried it on popcorn, but this was not a success.

I eat a (vegan) plant based diet & let me tell you, nutritional yeast flakes are a must! Whenever I start to run out of them, a bit of panic comes over me (lol). I live in a rural area and it can prove frustrating to find them here, at times. Often, I drive to our nearest Whole Foods Co-op but don't always have the time for the 160 mile roundtrip. So, I was pretty excited to find this product on Amazon, and with Prime, 2 day shipping! I use nutritional yeast flakes on our popcorn, in soups, lasagna, to make homemade vegan cheese, Alfredo sauce, garlic toast, garlic alfredo pizza topping, on and on. Like I already mentioned, it's pretty much a must in our household. There's not much you can't get (nutritionally) through the vegan diet, except vitamin B12. This one is a tough one. However, using these nutritional yeast flakes can help in this matter, as it contains B vitamins, B12 being one of them. That being said, I still choose to supplement with B12, as I don't want to take a chance with my health. Damage from a vitamin B12 deficiency is non reversible, so please, if you're vegan, or Mr wanting to try being one, take a B12 supplement. These nutritional yeast flakes come in a fairly good sized jar, it will last me awhile. They are of good quality and I am happy with them. Overall, good product.

After my husband had a heart attack I started looking for healthy, low-fat, low-sugar snacks... that he would actually eat. In Cooks Illustrated I read about the healthy snack of nutritional yeast flakes sprinkled onto popcorn. I bought some to try and can happily report it is delicious! Hubby was even licking his finger to get the last bits off the bottom of the popcorn bowl. Nutritional yeast has many other uses which can now be explored since it passed the critical taste test with hubby. Being unable to find this product at health food stores I bought through Amazon. The price was fair and shipping was FREE. We highly recommend this product.

During my transition to a vegan diet I began coming across recipes that called for nutritional yeast. This was the first brand I tried, and I absolutely fell in love with it. I have tried a few other brands since then, but keep coming back to Red Star. Not only is the flavor great, but the price is very reasonable compared to some of their competitors. It's great in all sorts of foods, far more than just tofu scrabble, pop corn, and mac and cheese. I put in cereal, cakes, french toast, soups, salads, smoothies, cookies, sandwiches, etc.

I have read about how nutritional yeast flakes gives food a "cheezy" taste, so I decided to try it for myself. The flakes taste somewhat similar to cheese, but it's the aftertaste that really spoils it for me. It gives the flavor more of an earthy, bitter taste rather than the rich, creamy texture of traditional cheese. Some may like the taste, but it's a little too much for me. Daiya makes a much better cheese substitute.