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Why do people add yeast to bread?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Yeast is a living organism that eats the sugar in the bread and emits carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide bubbles are what cause the bread dough to rise and for the final load to have small holes in the interior of the bread.

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