Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Increased Folate Bioavailability

• Determination of Folate Bioavailability From Brewer's Yeast in a Dual Isotope Randomized Human Intervention Study.

  • 2026-04
  • RCT
  • Molecular nutrition & food research 70(7)
  • • Nadine Weber
    • Lisa Striegel
    • Yvonne Methner
    • Beate Brandl
    • Viola Groehn
    • Jean-Pierre Knapp
    • Thomas Skurk
    • Michael Rychlik

  • PubMed: 41954190
  • DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.70453

  1 Insight on

  • Increased Folate Bioavailability

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  the yeast folates revealed for the five assessed volunteers a mean bioavailability of 74 % relative to 5-methyltetrahydrofolate as the reference dose.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate