What type of yeast is used for fermenting dough used for making bread?

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The dough, which is used for making foods such as dosa and idli is also fermented by bacteria. The puffed-up appearance of dough is due to the production of CO2 gas. The dough, which is used for making bread, is fermented using baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). A number of traditional drinks and foods are also made by fermentation by the microbes.Toddy’, a traditional drink of some parts of southern India is made by fermenting sap from palms.