Vegemite

Here's another new discovery: Vegemite. I chose this photo because it shows the vegemite on a cracker, the way you eat it. Of course, it's better if you spread it a little thinner and put a thin layer of margarine on your cracker first. How does it taste? Well, it's hard to describe. It tastes a little like bouillon paste because it's so salty. It tastes a little yeasty and fermented because it's made out of yeast. It's an acquired taste, but the amazing thing about it, is that a tiny serving of it has amazing amounts of B vitamins - including 50% of your folate requirement and also B12 which is not found in other vegetable foods. And lots of iron. It is very popular here. Some people eat it for breakfast every day and they serve vegemite sandwiches in the school cafeteria. It's kind of the role that peanut butter plays in the US. It doesn't taste as nice as peanut butter but it has a lot more vitamins.