What’s the difference between ‘nutritional yeast’ and the yeast used in baking? Can one bake with ‘nutritional yeast’?

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What’s the difference between ‘nutritional yeast’ and the yeast used in baking? Can one bake with ‘nutritional yeast’?

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They’re the same species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but usually different strains.

The salient difference is that nutritional yeast is dead, and yeast for brewing or baking has to be alive to do its thing, i.e. producing carbon dioxide and/or ethanol.