Reduce your bad cholestrol: Red Yeast Rice

Remember: Always consult a dietitian or a doctor before consuming foods that u have no knowledge of it's level of nutrients. (in this case especially is statin)

Red Yeast Rice is a bright reddish purple fermented rice, which acquires its colour by cultivating rice with the mold named Monascus Purpureus but some of them are due to chemical dye due to the lower cost of production.

Red yeast rice when produced using the 'Went' strain of Monascus purpureus contains significant quantites of the HMG-CoA Reductase inhibitor lovastatin which is also known as mevinolin, a naturally-occurring statin. It is sold as dietary supplement for controlling blood cholestrol. There is strong scientific evidence for its effect in lowering blood levels of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL/bad cholesterol), and triglyceride levels. Because an approved drug is identical to the molecule it is therefore regulated as a drug by the Food and Drug Administration.