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Why is yeast in the bread used?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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If you've ever seen pita bread, you know it is perfectly flat. It is an unleavened bread. All bread would be flat if not for leavening, yeast being a prime example. Feeding on the sugars in the bread dough the yeast creates carbon dioxide gas, which "inflates" the dough (we say "the bread rises"). The baked loaf retains this "inflated" shape.

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