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Yeast has many appliances in food preparation: bread yeast results in fluffy and soft bread, and beer yeast and wine yeast ferment sugar into alcohol. However, there are also types of yeast that cause infections in humans, such as vaginal candidiasis (vaginal candida or thrush).