What Foods Have Red Yeast Rice in Them? A Culinary Guide
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For over a thousand years, various Asian culinary traditions have utilized red yeast rice as a natural ingredient for coloring, flavoring, and preservation. Produced by fermenting rice with the mold *Monascus purpureus*, this unique ingredient gives a vibrant reddish-purple hue and a subtle, pleasant taste to a wide array of dishes and products. While most commonly known in recent years for its supplemental form due to compounds that can lower cholesterol, its traditional food applications are extensive and diverse.
