how does yeast make bread dough increase in size?

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how does yeast make bread dough increase in size?

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Yeast is a microbe, and it consumes the sugars in the dough. As it does this, it produces gas as a waste product, which inflates the dough and let’s it rise as it essentially fills with air. That’s why bread dough has lots of air pockets in it.

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