What Are Vitamens?

In the early 19 hundreds, many scientists were researching food and the different chemicals that our bodies get from what we eat. The name was catchy, so people just dropped the e and called them vitamens. Vitamens used to market food that was absolutely unappetizing, like small bricks of pasty yeast wrapped in foil. In the 19 thirties, the fleshman yeast company started making some yeast cakes that were fortified with extra vitemins. And nutritional yeast kind of carries the healthy yeast fad to maers itoi her about this yeast.

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