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Marmite Articles
Explore our collection of articles about Marmite, Britain's most divisive spread.
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Is Marmite banned in British prisons? The 'Marmite Mule' myth
The story goes that Marmite is banned in British prisons because inmates were using it to brew illicit alcohol. It makes a good headline and a worse fact. There is no blanket ban, and the science the myth rests on is wrong: the yeast in Marmite is dead before it reaches the jar, so it cannot ferment anything.
How Marmite is actually made: the yeast that eats itself
Marmite starts as the spent yeast left over from brewing beer. Salt makes the yeast cells digest themselves, the husks are sieved out, and what remains is a thick brown paste full of natural glutamates. The science of the jar, in plain English.
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