Cenovis

Cenovis ( portmanteau word from Latin cena " meal " ovum, " egg ", vis: " force " = " high protein power diet" as a euphemism for nutritional yeast ) is the brand name for a principally known in Switzerland spread which usually eaten on bread and butter and is sometimes used as a spice to sauces or vegetables. It is made from yeast extract, onions, carrots and spices.

Whether the Swiss Cenovis a licensed product of the elder was German, the company is not known. In contrast to comparable yeast extracts Swiss Cenovis was similar Thomy mustard, sold early on in the tube and is slightly lighter and smoother.

Since the beginning of the 20th century was experimenting with ways to make the brewer's yeast for food. The large available quantity and increasingly nutritional reasons played a role in this. The British Marmite (1902 ) and the Australian Vegemite (1922 ) were successful as products. 1912 by Casimir Funk, a drug against deficiency diseases discovered, which he called vitamin. The high content of thiamine (vitamin B1) was then the advertising more effective quality of nutritional yeast than you already longer known protein content.

Origins in Germany

1915 Cenovis Nährmittelwerke GmbH was founded in Munich. Than brewer's yeast and malt factory, which produced also by-products of these products and other foods such as oatmeal and baking soda, and thus was one of the main competitors of the company Maggi The German Cenovis vitamin extract was " unlimited shelf life " available from around 1920, in glasses with an inscription.

The image of Cenovis products was related to the life reform movement ( from the health food stores have emerged ). From Cenovis - yeast extract is reported in 1921 that consisted of purified and entbitterter brewer's yeast and is of honey consistency. It possesses a " similar, only finer taste like Liebig's meat extract ". The founder and principal shareholder of Cenovis, Julius Schülein, a nephew of the brewery owner Joseph Schülein, reported in his book from 1938 (the year when his Munich-based company was expropriated by the linearization and he emigrated to the United States ) produced about one in Switzerland Vitaminhefe Cenovis. In the same year the Australian trademark Cenovis was founded.

Swiss manufacturing

1931 Vitamin yeast AG was founded in Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau by the Salmenbräu Brewmaster Alex Villingen. Since 1935 she put Cenovis extract beside the brewer's yeast and other by-products. 1955 Cenovis was part of the survival ration of the Swiss Army. 1965 acquired the vitamin yeast AG from Cenovis -Werke GmbH Munich all word marks and fabrication processes. The international brand rights were sold to the Hügli Group in Steinach. Which emerged from her Heirler Cenovis GmbH has a similar range as in the then Munich Cenovis.

Revival

Cenovis - yeast extract is a product of times of economic crisis and the discussion about healthier eating habits. It should be replaced as sausage meat products, is economical in use and long periods without refrigeration durable. Therefore, Vegemite could hold in rough areas like the Australian Outback more than the comparable Cenovis in Switzerland, whose sales declined. In German-speaking Switzerland it is mostly the older generation still familiar in French-speaking Switzerland it became known, since the Geneva financier Michel Yagchi 1999, the product difficult to sell become saved. Since 2008 Cenovis is produced by the Sonaris AG in Arisdorf.