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Yeast is the rising agent, without yeast bread is flat. Many people do make unyeasted bread.

The yeast is a living organism and feeds on the sugars in flour, and releases the carbon dioxide that makes bread rise.

Yeast also adds many of the distinctive flavors and aromas we associate with bread.

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