Dought & clear, - Ruling on eating pickles and bread made with yeast in the dough

Is it permissible to eat fermented foods made at home, such as pickled
cabbage, soy sauce, leavened bread, in order to help the digestion
process?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
The general principle with regard to foods is that they are
permissible, and nothing is disallowed except that for which there is
evidence that it is haraam and should not be eaten.
But the problem is the use of yeast in these pickles.
It says inal-Mawsoo'ah al-'Arabiyyah, under the heading Khameerah (yeast):
Yeast is a substance that ferments the dough when making bread. Its
effect is the formation of carbon dioxide which created bubbles that
make the colour of the dough lighter, and makes the dough expand
during baking and rise and increase in size. Yeast is also used to
make beer, nabeedh and other alcoholic drinks. The he yeast that is
used commercially is made from colonies of microscopic single-celled
yeast organisms. Although there are more than 600 kinds of yeast, only
a few of them are used commercially.
Based on that:
If the amount of yeast in these pickles and the like is very little,
and it has dissolved in them, so that it does not have the effect of
causing intoxication or languor, there is nothing wrong with using
yeast in them, and eating these pickles.
But if the yeast has a lasting effect on them, such that if the one
who ate a lot of these pickles would become intoxicated or tired, it
is haraam to use the yeast in them, or to eat anything to which yeast
has been added in this way.
Thus it become clear that pickles made from permitted foods are
permissible. It should be noted that the vinegar which is put with
these products or that is produced by pickling these materials, comes
under the heading of drinks that are originally permissible, and is a
type of food that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon
him) ate and praised, saying, "What a good condiment is vinegar."
[Narrated by Muslim, 2051].
For a more detailed discussion on the ruling on vinegar, please see
the answer to questions no. 106196and 113941.
Secondly:
There is also nothing wrong with eating bread made with yeast. The
yeast (khameerah) that is added to the dough does not come under the
heading of khamr (intoxicant) that is haraam, and does not have any
effect of causing intoxication or languor, especially since cooking it
with fire alters the yeast completely, so that it no longer has any
effect.
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him)
was asked:
How should we respond to the ruling on the yeast that they put in
flour to help leaven it and make it easy to cook, as some people say
that it is khamr and it is not permissible to use it?
He replied:
My response to that is that there is nothing wrong with putting yeast
in the dough for the purpose of leavening it, because this does not
affect it at all. Moreover, I do not think that this yeast would cause
intoxication if a person were to eat it. The basic principle
concerning all foods and drinks and clothing is that they are
permissible, unless it is proven that they are haraam, because Allah,
may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
"He it is Who created for you all that is on earth. Then He rose over
(Istawa) towards the heaven and made them seven heavens and He is the
All-Knower of everything"
[al-Baqarah 2:29].
So there is nothing wrong with putting yeast in the dough to leaven it.
Fataawa Noor 'ala al-Darb(tape 70, side b)
And Allah knows best.-

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