Red yeast rice has been present in the Chinese pharmacopoeia since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), it was called "long life rice". The active ingredient of rice yeast is monacolin K.
Most of the products usually speak of "red yeast rice" but it is actually a red rice yeast.
This yeast (Monascus purpureus) is grown on rice, it contains a pigment with a pronounced red hue. So yeast is red and not rice.
Rice, the source of this substance, is the subject of intensive cultivation worldwide and especially in China, it is wise to choose a red yeast rice from organic farming.
Take 1 capsule of red yeast rice a day.
For 1 capsule (recommended daily serving): 600 mg of red rice yeast * (Monascus pupureus) containing 9 mg lovastatin (monacholine K). Anti-caking agent: colloidal silica. Vegetable capsule: hypromellose.
* from organic farming.
Box of 30 capsules.