| Rice is staple diet of Thailand and has high valuable nutrients suitable for all consumers. Many food products made from rice such as rice gruel, Kanom jean, rice flour, rice bran oil etc. This research aimed to be an alternative process to make value addition in broken rice. Thai red mold (Monascus kaoliang KB9) has specific characteristics. The fermented rice from red mold at optimum condition could produce high red pigment and anti-cholesterol agent which reduced blood cholesterol efficiently. Scaling-up of rice fermentation in optimum condition produced the high anti-cholesterol agent in short time. Fermented broken rice can be used as a choice of nutraceutical supplements. Furthermore, it could increase export opportunities in the future. |
