Pending Yeast is one of most important ingredient in several industries such as food process, alcoholic beverages fermentation and the production of ethanol. Furthermore, the pharmaceutical industry uses yeast for different products. Among these products are the production of proteins and vitamins.
Yeast is also a source of various enzymes.
In recent years a type of yeast, microbial polysaccharides, has been developed for various industrial purposes such as in crude oil recovery and as modifier of texture and consistency in food products. Experiments conducted at the Biomagnetic Engineering Laboratory on yeast fermentation under the influence of steady magnetic field have shown that the yeast metabolism is enhanced in the presence of magnetic field. Yeast in sugar solution exposed to the magnetic field of approximately 1 tesla is found to consume the sugar at faster rate than that without magnetic interference. Addition of the magnetic field also enhances the formation of yeast colonies. In another experiment the oxygen content in the samples was measured.