How to prepare Pesto Gnocchi with Red Star® Nutritional Yeast

How to prepare Pesto Gnocchi with Red Star® Nutritional Yeast

Gnocchi are historical and tasty meals from Roman Empire. Nowadays, gnocchi are still eaten by tons of people all over the world. Common accompaniments of gnocchi include various sauces including pesto.

Discover how to prepare healthy gnocchi with kale walnut pesto with Red Star® nutritional yeast. Adding Red Star® nutritional yeast in the recipe make it healthier and tastier. 

Red Star® nutritional yeast brings tons of nutrients including non-animal protein, fibers, minerals, and a lot of B vitamins. 

In this video, Chef Matt Burton explains how to prepare gnocchi with kale walnut pesto. Chef explains why adding Red Star® nutritional yeast int the recipe is important both for the taste and for your health. 

Discover more recipes on Red Star® nutritional yeast website. 

All benefits of Red Star® Nutritional Yeast for food service

Red Star® nutritional yeast is a golden nutritional nugget full of nutrients such as non-animal protein, fiber, mineral and lots of B vitamins. In addition to get an excellent nutritional profile, Red Star® nutritional yeast is delicious. 

This excellent nutritional yeast is available in grocery stores for years. Red Star® is now available for food service with a new dedicated offer to be in line with market needs. 

To discover this new offer and Red Star® Nutritional Yeast benefits, watch the video. 

What is Red Star® Nooch?

Nooch is under the spotlight. This golden nutritional nugget is loved by lots of vegetarian and vegan. But everyone can consume it. Red Star® Nooch is full of nutritional benefits.

Nooch is the new name of nutritional yeast given by US young vegan and vegetarians. Red Star® Nutritional Yeast is a complete ingredient offering diverse nutrients such as non-animal protein, mineral, fiber and B-complex vitamins.

In this infographic, discover all the Red Star® Nooch benefits, the way we produce it, and how to use it.

Why a healthy diet is important?

Healthy diet and healthy lifestyle are on the rise. Indeed, people are now aware of the multiple positive benefits of a healthy diet on their life.

In the U.S. more than 80% of the population consumes a poor diet. People are now consuming more foods high in energy, fats, free sugars and salt/sodium, and many people do not eat enough fruit, vegetables, and other dietary fibre such as whole grains. A poor diet and lifestyle may lead to some consequences that are visible. Among these consequences overweight and obesity are the main important ones. In the U.S. 42% of the adult population can be considered as obese. Other invisibles consequences such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and even certain cancers can be caused by a poor diet.

Having a heathy balanced and diversified diet is important to fulfill all our nutritional needs. 

According to the World Health Organization, a healthy diet should include fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and whole grains.

The benefits of a healthy diet are numerous:

Benefits of Healthy Eating for Adults

Nutritional Yeast is among these healthy ingredients

Within the healthy ingredients, nutritional yeast shouldn’t be forgot. Indeed, nutritional yeast as the name explicit it, offers an excellent nutritional profile. Nutritional yeast offers non-animal protein, a good source of fiber, minerals, and B-vitamin. In addition to these good nutrients, nutritional yeast contains almost no salt, and fat. This excellent nutritional profile makes nutritional yeast a healthy ingredient that should consumed by everyone.

While being a healthy ingredient, nutritional yeast is also tasty when sprinkled on food such as salad, soup, savory popcorn. Nutritional yeast can be also incorporated into many different recipes as dips, nondairy sauce, to replace cheese on pasta. Find some inspiration on how to use nutritional yeast thanks to our delicious recipes.