Red yeast rice
Product name: Red yeast rice
Source:
Extraction part: Red yeast rice
Specification: 100% natural pigment
Appearance: Red fine powder
Description
Red yeast rice is produced by extracting, crystallizing and purifying the liquid red yeast pigment extracted from red yeast rice with ethanol or from the deep culture broth of red yeast rice. Red yeast red pigment is a traditional natural functional food pigment produced by fermentation of Monascus purpureus. It has multiple advantages of "nutritional, natural and multifunctional" and is worthy of vigorous promotion and application.
Red yeast rice
Application
Natural pigment, safe and non-toxic, can be widely used in various food (such as soy products, meat products, wine, juice, beverage, candy, cakes), medicine, cosmetics and other industries.
Function
1. Steady with pH value water solubility
Monascus Red is100% water soluble
2. Good coloring performance
Monascus Red is easy to color protein or raw materials with more protein, color on which is difficult to remove after coloring.
3. Good safety
Monascus Red has very good safety. Animal experiment indicates that any food made of edible Monascus Red does not cause any acute chronic poisoning.
Application
Mostly this color is widely used as meat product colorant instead of nitrite, according to it is close to the color of meat. It is widely used in meat products, dairy products, drinks, juice, ice cream, soy, marine products, fermented bean curd and seasoning.
Usage: It can be dissoluble in water solution and water-based medium. To take meat as example, it can be added as the production needs.
Specifications Sheet
| ITEM |
SPECIFICATION |
| Description: |
| Appearance |
Light yellow or white powder |
| Odor |
Characteristic |
| Particle size |
100% pass through 80 mesh sieve |
| Tests: |
| Loss on drying(5h at105°C) |
≤5.0% |
| Ash(3h at 600°C) |
≤5.0% |
| Total Heavy Metals |
≤10ppm |
| Plumbum |
≤2ppm |
| Arsenic(as AS2O3) |
≤2ppm |
| Residual Solvents |
Eur. Pharm. 2000 |
| Ellagic acid |
40% |
| Microbial: |
| Total bacterial count |
Max.1000cfu/g |
| Yeast & Mould |
Max.100cfu /g |
| Escherichia coli presence |
Negative |
| Salmonella |
Negative |
Shipping & Storage
Delivery:Sea/Air Shipping & International Express
Shipping Time: 2-3 working days after payment
Package: 1-5kg/Aluminum foil bag, size: 22cm (Width)*32cm (Length)
15-25kg/Drum, size: 38cm (Diameter)*50cm (Height)
Storage: Kept away from strong light and heat.
Shelf Life: 24 months
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