Quality and Authenticity Control of Functional Red Yeast Rice-A Review

Red yeast rice (RYR) is made by fermenting the rice with . It is commonly used in food colorants, dyeing, and wine making in China and its neighboring countries. Nowadays RYR has two forms on the market: common RYR is used for food products, the other form is functional RYR for medicine. However, so...

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Published in:Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2019-05, Vol.24 (10), p.1944
Main Authors: Song, Jiawen, Luo, Jia, Ma, Zubing, Sun, Qiang, Wu, Chunjie, Li, Xiaofang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
authentication methods
Biological Products - chemistry
Biological Products - standards
Biosynthetic Pathways
Cholesterol
detection methods
Enzymes
Fermentation
Food
Food dyes
Food production
functional RYR
Lipids
Lipoproteins
Lovastatin
Lovastatin - analysis
Lovastatin - chemistry
Metabolites
monacolin K
Quality Control
Quality standards
Review
Rice
Ryanodine receptors
Spectrum analysis
Wines
Yeast
Yeasts
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Summary:Red yeast rice (RYR) is made by fermenting the rice with . It is commonly used in food colorants, dyeing, and wine making in China and its neighboring countries. Nowadays RYR has two forms on the market: common RYR is used for food products, the other form is functional RYR for medicine. However, some researchers reported that commercial lovastatin (structure is consistent with monacolin K) is illegally added to common RYR to meet drug quality standards, so as to imitate functional RYR and sell the imitation at a higher price. Based on current detection methods, it is impossible to accurately distinguish whether functional RYR is adulterated. Therefore, it is especially important to find a way to authenticate functional RYR. In the current review, the advances in history, applications, components (especially monacolins, monacolins detection methods), quality standards, authentication methods and perspectives for the future study of RYR are systematically reviewed.
ISSN:1420-3049
1420-3049
DOI:10.3390/molecules24101944