What is red yeast rice extract good for?

Both Red Yeast Rice Extract Powder and functional red yeast rice are produced by fermenting rice with Monascus purpureus. However, the characteristics of the Monascus purpureus used in the two are very different, and the fermentation process is also different, the performance of the products obtained are very different, and the price of the goods is very different.

The fermentation process of ordinary red yeast rice is relatively simple: the rice is steamed and then inoculated in a large pond for open fermentation. After a certain process time and temperature, it can be discharged, and then dried to become the finished red yeast rice. The product price is based on the color. It depends on the price. At present, the food industry at home and abroad uses this red yeast rice as a food coloring agent. Different from chemical colorants, it is a food additive with both health-care properties and no side effects, and its uses are becoming more and more extensive.

Researchers have discovered and confirmed that functional red yeast rice has at least the following four functions:

(1) Functional red yeast rice can lower blood cholesterol: Professor Akira Endo from Japan took the lead in finding Monacolin k from the culture broth of the pink Aspergillus monascus ruber isolated from fermented food in China, and then successively found Monacolin k in the culture of functional Monascus ruber. Five other structural analogs were found in the culture medium, all of which have the function of inhibiting cholesterol synthesis.

(2) Functional red yeast rice can lower blood sugar: Japanese scholar Hideaki Tamada directly uses the culture of functional monascus as feed for animal experiments. In addition to confirming that the feed containing "functional monascus culture" can effectively improve rabbits In addition to the 18~25% reduction in serum cholesterol, it was also found that the blood glucose of all the experimental rabbits decreased by 23~33% within half an hour after eating the feed, and the blood glucose level after 1 hour was still 19~29% lower than the control group. .

(3) Red Yeast Rice Extract Powder can be Lowering blood pressure: The National Institute of Health and Nutrition of Japan conducted animal experiments on adding red yeast rice culture to feed and found that 0.2% to 0.3% of red yeast rice culture feed can increase blood pressure in rats with congenital hypertension. From more than 200mmHg to less than 180mmHg, its active ingredients are γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and acetylcholine.

(4) Anti-cancer effect: Monascus orange pigment Momascorubin and Rubropunctatin have active hydroxyl groups, which can easily interact with amino groups. Therefore, they can not only treat amineemia but are also likely to be excellent anti-cancer substances.

Due to the improvement of living standards, the risk of middle-aged and elderly people suffering from hyperlipidemia and high cholesterol is much higher than before, and these chronic diseases are difficult to cure, so far no effective drugs are on the market. Since drugs cannot treat these diseases, it just provides an opportunity for the advent of functional red yeast rice, which is expected to alleviate diseases such as hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia.

Functional red yeast rice has the following special functions：

As the saying goes, "The former planted trees and the descendants took advantage of the shade." This truth is meaningful at all times. For example, a traditional Chinese medicine classic written by Chinese medicine practitioners a hundred years ago was a good blessing for the later, and functional red yeast rice is a typical example. With the help of the basic pharmacopoeia and self-innovation, the therapeutic and health-care effects of functional red yeast rice have been upgraded and become a hot and good product in the health care market.

The newly published "Chinese Medicine Dictionary" summarizes the main effects of functional Red Yeast Rice Extract Powder as "activating blood stasis, invigorating the spleen and eliminating food, treating postpartum lochia, stasis, abdominal pain, food accumulation, fullness, red and white diarrhea and bruises" .