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| Product Name: |
red yeast rice
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| Supply Ability: |
40 Mt per month |
| Related proudcts |
red yeast rice, red fermented rice, monascus purpureus, |
| Specifications |
0.1%- 4% |
| Price Term: |
CIF |
| Port of loading: |
main ports in China |
| Minimum Order |
1 KG |
| Unit Price: |
USD1-100 |
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What is Red Yeast Rice?
Red yeast rice is a substance made by fermenting a type of red yeast called Monascus purpureus over rice.
Red yeast rice has been used in China as a preservative, spice, and food coloring. It's used to give Peking duck its characteristic red color and can also be an ingredient in fish sauce, fish paste, and rice wine. 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.
The problem is that the primary ingredient in these supplements, lovastatin, is also the active pharmaceutical ingredient in prescription drugs for high cholesterol such as Mevacor. In fact, lovastatin was originally derived from another type of red yeast called Monascus ruber.
When the FDA discovered that red yeast rice contained a substance found in prescription drugs, it banned red yeast rice products containing lovastatin. In August, 2007, the FDA issued a warning that several red yeast rice products still contained lovastatin. The manufacturers of these products have since recalled these products.
Regulation
Red yeast rice is classified as a dietary supplement by the FDA. Because of its similarity to the statin drugs, there is an ongoing legal debate about whether red yeast rice should be reclassified as a prescription drug rather than a dietary supplement.
Why People Use Red Yeast Rice
To Lower Cholesterol and Triglycerides
Since red yeast rice products can no longer contain lovastatin, it's unclear whether red yeast products currently on the market would have any effect on c |
| Company: |
Wuxi Cima Science Co.,Ltd
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| Contact: |
Ms. Jennifer Lau |
| Address: |
No. 100 jinxi road |
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| Tel: |
15190226794 |
| Fax: |
0510-85185685 |
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