Cyberlindnera jadinii, commonly known as torula in the food industry, is a species of yeast. It is used as a savory, protein-rich food ingredient as well as a food bait for insects. It is also commonly known as the anamorphic name Candida utilis, which has been discarded under the "one fungus, one name" change.
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Cyberlindnera jadinii, commonly known as torula in the food industry, is a species of yeast. It is used as a savory, protein-rich food ingredient as well as a food bait for insects. It is also commonly known as the anamorphic name Candida utilis, which has been discarded under the "one fungus, one name" change.
== Taxonomic history == Lindnera jadinii was split from Pichia in 2008 under a genetic study. Unfortunately the genus name Lindera was illegitimate, hence the change to Cyberlindnera jadinii in 2009. The species was originally isolated from cow absesses. Natural populations are mainly diploid.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).