Yeast Extract

Yeast Extract

Features

Using fresh beer or bread yeast as main raw material, yeast extract is a paste or powder product made through enzyme hydrolysis process. This product is a mixture composed of amino acids, peptides, water-soluble vitamins, and carbohydrates (mainly oligosaccharides and trehalose).

Application

The product is widely used in the microbial media, and industrial fermentation.

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Description

Quality standard 

(1) Sensory index

Items Yeast extract Yeast powder
Industrial grade Pharmaceutical grade Industrial grade Pharmaceutical grade
Color Yellowish brown or drab Light yellow or drab
Morphology paste powder
Odor Inherent smell of the product, no other peculiar smell

 

(2) Physicochemical index

Items Yeast extract Yeast powder
Industrial grade Pharmaceutical grade Industrial grade Pharmaceutical grade
Loss on Drying % ≤35.0 ≤7.0 ≤5.0
Total nitrogen

(on DM)      %

≥9.0 ≥9.0 ≤9.0
Amino nitrogen

(on DM)      %

≥3.0 ≥3.0 ≥4.0
Chloride

(Sodium Chloride basis) %

__ __ ≤5.0
Ash

(on DM)      %

≤15.0 ≤15.0 ≤15.0
PH (2% solution) 5.0—7.0 5.0—7.0 6.8-7.2
Acid solution &

alkalescence high-pressure test

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Solubility,(2% solution) Soluble complete Soluble complete