Gluten-free alternative to commercial yeast when making gluten-free bread?
This link claims that yeast contains gluten, which is understandable.
Yet today, a lot of people have a reaction to gluten that they are trying to avoid by becoming gluten-free.
There are many brands of bread that sell gluten-free bread, made out of gluten-free grain.
When making my own bread, I want to use gluten-free yeast (and ideally, organic).
These people sell organic quinoa yeast, which is gluten-free, but do not ship to the USA.
I am wondering what alternative exists that is gluten-free and organic and that one can find here in the USA.
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Just buy baker's yeast. Only brewers yeast might contain gluten because its a byproduct of beer.
The quinoa product you mention is simply quinoa flour with yeast added.
That very same source says:
The following yeasts are all gluten-free:
active dry
autolyzed (not autolyzed yeast extract – see below)
baker’s
nutritional
That includes just about any type of yeast that you'd use for baking.
"Brewer's yeast" is unique because it's typically harvested from previous batches of beer. Specific yeast strains have an impact on the finished beer's flavor, and brewers will cultivate those in hopes of replicating a certain flavor. This yeast contains gluten because it also contains remnants of the beer itself in addition to the yeast.
Yeast extract, which the source calls out as possibly containing gluten, is something else entirely and is typically used as an additive and flavor enhancer, not as a leavening agent.
Use the same yeast that you'd use for baking anything else. The grain is more important to ensuring that the finished bread is gluten-free; here is an extensive but non-exhaustive list.
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