Nutritional Yeast Flakes in France - help!

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I'm adding this email again as I couldn't see my original text to Bee. This is

for anyone who knows the French NY. Thanks again.

Hi everyone, I recently sent this message out to which Bee replied (thanks Bee),

that I should send the query with the above title. If there is anybody out there

who uses or has any knowledge of the Yeast Flakes in France, I would appreciate

your advice.

>

I need to get back to the issue of the yeast flakes. I have been looking on

the

> internet trying to find out if what I am buying is the active yeast. As the

> Fench tend to name things differently than us (even when translating to

> English!), I'm wondering if maybe the flakes I see in the shop, called Levure

>de

> Biere which are flakes, roughly translated appears to be Brewer's Yeast, but

> appear to be made from bettrave, which to me is beetroot, or maybe it's beet,

> which is I think ok. I didn't buy that, but bought Levure Maltée which is

>yeast

> flakes with cereals, I have just discovered, plus I haven't been able to find

> any reference to this type anywhere in the US.. This may be worse for me as

> have a gluten intolerance and of course should not be eating it on this diet.

> They have the usual name of Saccharomyces cerevisia, which is written on my

>bag

> of Yeast flakes and is used to describe nutritional yeast and sometimes

>brewers

> yeast on the internet (probably why the French call it this).

>

> I may be well off with this, but my flakes have the nutty, flaky look for

Thanks Nuala

> Nutritional Yeast Flakes.