Question

Is yeast an enzyme?

Answer 1

1. Enzyme: Proteins called enzymes to assist our bodies' chemical reactions, or metabolism, go more quickly.
2. Enzymes are found in all living organisms. Example: Lipase, Maltase, Trypsin, Amylase.
3. Yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the single-celled organism that makes up yeast, needs nutrients, temperature, and moisture to survive.
4. There are a number of additional little enzymes found in yeast, each of which contributes in some manner to the total alterations made by the activity of the yeast in the dough.
5. Two of the most common enzymes in yeast are maltase and invertase.

Hence, yeast is an enzyme.