The eight things on a Marmite jar's label, in plain English: yeast extract, salt, vegetable juice, spice extracts, and the B vitamins added since the 1930s. The brewing connection, the B12 question, and what is not in the jar.
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Why Marmite is made in Burton: how the spread became a Midlands accident
Marmite is made in Burton-on-Trent for one practical reason: it was the brewing capital of Britain, with roughly a quarter of the nation's beer and a mountain of spare yeast. The jar exists because of the pint, and it always has.
Limited Edition Cricket Marmite
Another Marmite special to be bowled over by. A new limited edition Marmite, using yeast from Marston's Pedigree, the official beer of English Cricket. Cricket, beer and Marmite are synonymous with.
Prisoners turn to Marmite moonshine
You search the web time and again, but still you miss the most amazing things. In 2002, the centennial year of Marmite, it was discovered that inmates at a jail near Wolverhampton in England, were brewing their own "hooch" using Marmite.
A short history of Marmite: 1902 to today, in twelve key dates
It begins, as a lot of British food does, with a by-product nobody wanted. In 1902, a small group of investors paid £100 a year to rent a disused malt house in Burton-on-Trent and started a company called the Marmite Food Company Limited. Burton was the centre of the British brewing industry.
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