What is Torula?
Torula is a yeast which is formally known as Candida utilis. This yeast has a number of practical uses, and it can also become pathogenic in certain circumstances. Torula can be found all over the world in a variety of settings, preferring cellulose-rich substrates such as wood, leaf litter, and paper pulp. In several regions, people deliberately cultivate this yeast for industrial purposes, usually on a substrate of wood pulp which makes the yeast easy to extract. Yeasts are organisms within the fungal kingdom. They reproduce by budding, and they are unicellular in nature, although they can link together to form colonies. Many people think specifically of baker’s yeast when they hear the term “yeast,” but there are thousands of yeast species, with many more waiting to be identified. Candida is a particularly large yeast genus with a number of representatives, including Torula. The term “Torula” references a now deprecated scientific name for this yeast. Historically, Torula was known
