WHERE WAS THE YEAST? | 2008-06-17
Every tiny Medieval village contained several makers of ale. The ale had little nutritional value, but it cantained precious calories in a population on the edge of starvation.
Empty calories. Protein was out the question. They were always starved for protein.
If they had consumed the yeast which wa a natural product of the quarts of ale they drank daily, all of which is pure protein, not to mantion Vitamin D, they might have been very healthy indeed.
Then again if the distilled alcohol poured down a wounded person's throat to help ease the pain of wounds had been used on the wounds ...
But the people only listened to Intellectuals and Priests.
What they got, they EARNED.