Marmite
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Marmite ( ) is a British savoury spread based on yeast extract invented by the Marmite Food Company in 1902. It is made from by-products of beer brewing (lees) and is produced by the British company Unilever. Marmite is a vegan source of B vitamins, including supplementary vitamin B12. It is traditionally eaten spread thinly on buttered toast.
Key facts
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- Marmite
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- Marmite Food Company
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- 200
- Company.type
- Private (1902–1990)Subsidiary (1990–2000)
- Company.industry
- Food
- Company.fate
- Acquired by CPC International (then renamed "Best Foods") in 1990, became a brand of Unilever in 2000
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- Company.defunct
- (as a manufacturing company)
- Company.hq_location_city
- Burton upon Trent
- Company.hq_location_country
- England
- Company.products
- Food spread
- Company.owner
- Unilever (2000–present)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Similar products
- Usage
- Manufacture
- Nutritional information
- Storage
- Marketing
- Love/hate polarisation
- Availability worldwide
- Denmark
- Canada
- South Africa
- Special editions
- See also
- References
- External links
Marmite ( ) is a British savoury spread based on yeast extract invented by the Marmite Food Company in 1902. It is made from by-products of beer brewing (lees) and is produced by the British company Unilever. Marmite is a vegan source of B vitamins, including supplementary vitamin B12. It is traditionally eaten spread thinly on buttered toast.
Marmite is a sticky dark-brown paste with a distinctive, salty, powerful flavour and heady aroma. This distinctive taste is represented in the marketing slogan: "Love it or hate it." Such is its prominence in British culture that Marmite is often used as a metaphor for something that is an acquired taste or polarises opinion. Marmite is commonly used as a flavouring, as it is known for its savoury taste due to its high levels of glutamate (1960mg/100g).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marmite” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.