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Red yeast rice

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Rice fermented with Monascus. Fermentation is outside the current scope. Not in the directory yet.

Red yeast rice is traditionally rice fermented with Monascus fungi. The fermentation step is the process that defines the article. Fermented products are not eligible under the current plant-extraction scope.

This page is a future research topic only. It is not an approval to source red yeast rice through CleanIngredients, and it is not a statement about monacolin content or regulatory status.

Public database references

Reference molecules describe chemical identity, not the composition, purity, origin, or safety of a supplier’s extract. These automated lookups do not change supplier rankings.

FDA food recall keyword screening

Search terms: red yeast rice. 0 matching recall records in the available dataset, including historical and terminated recalls. Retrieved 2026-11-15.

Matches can include finished foods and multi-ingredient products. They do not establish that this ingredient caused a recall or that any listed supplier was involved. No matches does not mean an ingredient or supplier is safe.

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Specifications

Botanical source
Monascus species and rice variety are not reviewed, because the process is already outside scope.
Plant part
The starting material is rice, then a fermentation. That is not a plant extraction.
Common grades and distinctions
Pigment grades and monacolin-standardised grades are different and are not listed.

Listing status

This ingredient is not in the directory yet. Sample and quote requests are not open for it.

Buying considerations for US supplement brands

Fermentation stays ineligible unless the directory’s scope is explicitly expanded. This stub is crawlable so that limit can be read. It is marked noindex and is not in the sitemap.

Sources and method

Evidence reviewed 2026-11-14. Methodology 2026-11-14.1.

No source has been filed on this page yet. That is an incomplete research state.