Yeasts are ubiquitous unicellular fungi widespread in natural environments. Yeast have a broad set of carbon sources (e.g., polyols, alcohols, organic acids and amino acids) that they can metabolize b...Yeasts are ubiquitous unicellular fungi widespread in natural environments. Yeast have a broad set of carbon sources (e.g., polyols, alcohols, organic acids and amino acids) that they can metabolize but they prefer sugars. Yeast are capable of metabolizing hexoses (glucose, fructose, galactose or mannose) and disaccharides (maltose or sucrose) as well as compounds with two carbons (ethanol or acetate).
