Is it bad to eat yeast?!
Answers: I don't mean food with yeast in them--I'm talking about straight yeast. If someone was to eat a spoonful of straight yeast, would that be harmful to them?
If you're talking about a instant, dried yeast, like the kind you'd use for home bread baking, then the Answer is no, it can't hurt you to eat it. If you can tolerate the taste, then go right ahead. It would actually be fairly nutritious---fairly high in B-complex vitamins, and some vitamin E and C, too.
Brewer's yeast, the dietary supplement, is simply yeast that's been compressed with some kind of filler/binder (like starch) into a pill, to make it easy to swallow without having to taste it.
No. It's just fungus. If allowed to ferment it would create alcohol though, but it is harmless otherwise.
Edit: Ok, let me qualify my answer a little here. There are lots of different variety of yeasts. A couple of species can cause infections by someone with a compromised immune system (if they had AIDS for example). There of couse is also vaginal yeast infections, but you said eating the yeast. Besides, getting a hold of yeast to eat usually means some sort of bakers or brewers yeast, not the kind of yeast which causes infections in humans of any sort.
Yes-it could cause an infection
No, it wouldn't harm you - yeast is dormant, and "wakes up" in warm water, then it eats sugar, and produces gas - that's what makes bread rise.
If swallowed - the acid in our stomachs would just kill it, I think.
Worst case - it would wake up and start to grow, which would make you gassy. <burp> No problem. :o)
you probably should limit the amount but it is not bad for you.