Wei Jung Organic Thick Red Yeast Black Bean Sauce - 420ml

This thick Soy Sauce is made according to traditional methods with organic black soybeans and premium quality red yeast rice. Red Yeast Rice is added giving the sauce a unique flavor and characteristic.

Red yeast rice is rice that has been fermented by the red yeast, Monascus purpureus. It has been used by the Chinese for many centuries as a food preservative, food colorant (it is responsible for the red color of Peking duck), spice, and an ingredient in rice wine. Red yeast rice continues to be a dietary staple in China, Japan, and Asian communities in the United States.

Recently, red yeast rice has been developed by Chinese and American scientists as a product to lower blood lipids, including cholesterol and triglycerides.

Ingredients: OCIA organic black soy beans, glutinous rice, red yeast, natural sea salt 

Contain soyabeans