Red Yeast Rice extract

What is Red Yeast Rice Extract？

Red yeast rice is rice that has been fermented by the red yeast, monascus purpureus. Red yeast rice has been used by the Chinese for many centuries as a food preservative, food colorant (Red yeast rice is responsible for the red color of Peking duck), spice,and ingredient in rice wine. Red yeast rice continues to be a dietary staple in China, Japan, and Asian communities in the United States, with an estimated average consumption of 14 to 55 grams of red yeast rice per day per person.

More about Red Yeast Rice

Red yeast rice is used in traditional Chinese medicine as a remedy for poor circulation, indigestion, and diarrhea. Red yeast rice contains naturally-occurring substances called monacolins. Monocolins, particularly one called lovastatin, is believed to be converted in the body to a substance that inhibits HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme that triggers cholesterol production. This is the way the popular statin drugs work.Because of this action, red yeast rice products containing a higher concentration of monocolins have been developed and marketed as a natural product to lower cholesterol.

Function of Red Yeast Rice Extract

1.Strengthen the spleen and digestion, the role of blood circulation

2.For lowering blood pressure, lower total cholesterol, reductase inhibitors, direct inhibition of HNG-coA reductase, blocking cholesterol synthesis
3Lovastatin can reduce the hybrid in the type of familial and non-familial high cholesterol blood serum of patients with serum cholesterol levels.

Application of Red Yeast Rice Extract

1.As active ingredient of products for improving blood circulation and benefiting stomach, it is mainly used in health product industry;
2.As food supplements and natural pigment, it is widely used in food industry.