Product description
Red rice is a bright reddish purple fermented rice, which acquires its colour from being cultivated with the mold Monascus purpureus. Red yeast rice is used to colour a wide variety of food products, including pickled tofu, red rice vinegar, Peking Duck, and Chinese pastries that require red food colouring. In addition to its culinary use, red yeast rice is also used in traditional Chinese herbology and traditional Chinese medicine. Its cooking time is 40 minutes It has a sweet taste, and once cooked, it could be stored in the fridge for couple of days.