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for rice steeping, steaming cookers for rice cooking, inoculators for
mixing seed with steamed rice, aeration tanks with air conditioners,
hot air driers, and liquid seed cultivation tanks have been successfully
used in red mold rice production on a large scale. e quality of the
red mold rice, indicated by the color values (U/ g, stand for pigment
content in the red mold rice), was improved greatly. Currently, depth
beds and aeration tanks with intermittently mixing are the major fer-
mentation vessels for red mold rice cultivation in China.
Figure 8.38 Three types of Monascus pigments.
Figure 8.39 Mona ...