yeast

informal group of fungi
Product food_ingredient Q45422
yeast
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yeast

Summary

yeast is a food ingredient[1]. yeast ranks in the top 5% of food_ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,834 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • yeast's instance of is recorded as food ingredient[3].
  • yeast's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name[4].
  • yeast is a type of fungi[5].
  • yeast is a type of raising agent[6].
  • yeast's Commons category is recorded as Yeasts[7].
  • yeast's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Yeasts[8].
  • yeast's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • yeast's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • yeast's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • yeast's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[12].
  • yeast's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[13].
  • yeast's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[14].
  • yeast's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[15].
  • yeast's partially coincident with is recorded as Yeast-like fungi[16].
  • yeast's topic has template is recorded as Q125252746[17].
  • yeast's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Sporidiales[18].
  • yeast's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Saccharomyces cerevisiae[19].
  • yeast's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Saccharomycotina[20].
  • yeast's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Schizosaccharomycetes[21].

Why It Matters

yeast ranks in the top 5% of food_ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,834 views/month).[2] yeast has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] yeast is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Ginta Pankoka · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of latvia id 000126845
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  2. 9d ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Topic's main category Category:Yeasts
    Taxon known by this common name Sporidiales, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomycotina +1
    Topic has template Q125252746
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