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Torula yeast on a food label: allergens, diets and other names

Torula yeast is a kind of yeast. It is not one of the allergens that labels must declare. It is vegan. Open Food Facts finds it in 2,863 products, most often in savoury snacks.

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Does torula yeast contain an allergen?

Torula yeast is not one of the allergens that food labels must declare in the US, the UK, Europe or the Gulf. Open Food Facts does not link it to an allergen, and Bravoora’s label checker does not read the name as one.

Is torula yeast vegan?

Yes. Torula yeast is vegan and vegetarian: Open Food Facts records nothing from an animal in it.

VeganFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.
VegetarianFits youNothing from an animal, by the Open Food Facts record.

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What other names does torula yeast have on a label?

On European labels it is “levure torula” in French, “Torula-Hefe” in German and “Lievito torula” in Italian. One more language is listed below.

French
levure torula
German
Torula-Hefe
Italian
Lievito torula
Croatian
torula kvasac

Which foods contain torula yeast?

Open Food Facts lists torula yeast in the ingredients of 2,863 products, most often savoury snacks, ready meals and dressings and sauces. Most of them are sold in the United States, Canada and France.

  • Savoury snacks252
  • Ready meals195
  • Dressings and sauces110
  • Meat56
  • Biscuits and cakes50
  • Nuts37

Products with it, by country of sale: United States 2,715 · Canada 95 · France 28 · Germany 15.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows where torula yeast turns up, not how much of the market it is.

What kind of ingredient is torula yeast?

Torula yeast is a kind of yeast.

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An allergen is stated only when two of three checks agree: the Open Food Facts record, Bravoora’s label checker, and the ingredient’s own name or family (oat flour is oats, a cheese is milk). Every name where they disagree waits for a person to review it.

  1. Open Food Facts: Torula yeast
  2. Open Food Facts: ingredients taxonomy (names, family tree, allergen and vegan flags), ODbL
  3. Open Food Facts: product database, 4,535,553 products, read 13 October 2026, ODbL
  4. Wikipedia: Torula

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