According to the Chinese Food Safety Standard for Food Additives Application GB2760-2014, Monascus color, also named red kojic rice, monascus red, is legally used in coloring for varies kinds of sauce, including: jam, vegetable mud paste, filling sauces for bakery, flavoring syrup, seasoning sauce, tomato sauce.

Monascus red color is 100 percent natural coloring made by fermentation by rice and monascus microbial agents. With red and little yellow color tone, it has strong coloring ability to varies kinds of sauces and binds to molecules found in foods tightly, which cannot easily fade.

Monascus color for sauces coloring is more and more widely used in modern food industry production as a natural coloring without any harm to human health, what’s more, it is also with low economic cost due to small dosage.