Red Yeast Rice Powder

Product Details

Red yeast rice powder is a Chinese traditional medicine and food dual-purpose product, which are fermented and cultivated in rice with Monascus unique to China, have been used for thousands of years. This product is a red powder with pure color tone, good photothermal stability, pure nature, safety, no side effects, and a wide range of pH applications. Monascus is a kind of pure natural, safe and healthy food additive, which is made from indica rice and purified by Monascus purpureus with modern bioengineering technology through liquid submerged fermentation. Moreover, this product has bright color, pure tone, plumpness and good photothermal stability. It is an ideal colorant for natural green food. It has a wide range of applications, including food (meat products, fruit juice, color wine, jam, beverages, candy, cakes, soy sauce, health vinegar, etc.); Drugs (drug colorants, functional health products) and Cosmetics.

We could also offer Red yeast rice powder Monacolin K 0.2%-5% in stock, please check with us in details.

Health Benefit

• Anti obesity: Monascus aqueous extract and ethanol extract inhibit the proliferation and differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. The aqueous extract of Monascus can improve the lipolytic activity in mature adipocytes, but it does not affect the activity of heparin releasablelipoprotein lipase.
• Anticancer activity: Monascus extract can significantly inhibit the proliferation of colon cancer cells HCT-116 and HT-29 and promote cell apoptosis, and the part of Monascus extract after removing lovastatin still has inhibitory effect on colon cancer cells. Colon cancer cells cultured with mevalonate can reverse the antitumor effect of lovastatin, but can not reverse the antitumor effect of Monascus extract.
• Preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease. The ethanol extract of Monascus rice has stronger protective effect than a considerable amount of pure monacolink, because Monascus rice extract has many antioxidant and anti-inflammatory active ingredients in addition to monacolink. The potential synergistic effect of these ingredients makes Monascus rice more effective in inhibiting a β 40 – induced inflammatory reaction and oxidative damage.
• Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. Ergosterol contained in Monascus is the precursor of fat soluble vitamin D2, which is produced by ultraviolet photochemical reaction.