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Kahm yeast, despite the misleading colloquial term, is actually a small colony of different species of yeasts, such as Pichia, Hansenula, Debaryo-myce, Mycoderma and Candida. These species of yeasts which occur in kahm yeast are not classed as harmful, and in fact most of them are considered probiotic!