Red Yeast Powder is generally available in condiment stores and large supermarkets; it is also available on major online shopping platforms.

Red yeast powder can use starch, dextrin, maltose, honey disaccharide, fiber disaccharide, glucose, glycerol, ethanol, lactic acid, malic acid, citric acid and other kinds of sugar and acid as a source of carbon, and can utilize nitro nitrogen, amino nitrogen and organic nitrogen, while organic nitrogen is the best source of nitrogen.

Mycobacterium smegmatis can synthesize its own biotin, thiamin, riboflavin, ergosterol and other vitamins. Aspergillus erythropolis can be metabolized to generate a variety of enzymes, glucoamylase, glucosidase, protein hydrolase, esterase and so on.

Application of Red Currant Powder

Red Currant can be used to produce yellow wine, white wine and prepared wine. For example, the use of red yeast esterification mold to cultivate strong aroma strengthened Daquan, Daquan can be greatly improved saccharification force, fermentation, esterification force; Henan Shangcai County Scholar's Red Wine Factory, in accordance with the ancient recipe for the use of distilled spirits with red yeast and rock sugar to produce "Scholar's Red" wine, excellent quality.

General food:

such as red-currant bread, red-currant noodles, red-currant cookies, barbecued pork and red-currant sausage. The practice of adding nitrites to meat products to color, preserve and add flavor has a long history, according to reports. However, nitrite is a precursor of the potent carcinogen nitrosamine. Some people to 1600mg / kg of red color pigment production of sausage, its color is better than 150mg / kg of sodium nitrite production of sausage, and in 4 ℃ storage for 1 month does not change color.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Aspergillus erythrocyanosus (erythrocyanidin)