Why can’t I live without eating red koji? Doctor: 1 red koji can easily produce harmful substances

 9:00am, 17 June 2025

The red koji health food from Kobayashi Manufacturer of Japan was packaged, and the deadly toxin "soft hairy green acid" was detected. Many people have suffered from kidney diseases, including deaths. More than 200 pieces of domestic raw materials and related products have been recycled and removed from the shelves. Why are there any problems with not eating healthy health foods? The Taiwan University Family Medicine Department, the director of the attending doctor, said that it may be due to poor fermentation conditions or dyeing, which leads to the production of harmful substances.

Red koji can adjust citric sterol, but attention should be paid to the taboos

The ingredients in red koji have been found to be similar to those of statin, which has health benefits for adjusting blood lipids. The executive director of the Haoxin Ren Foundation and the Taiwan Department of Healthcare Medical Department, the chief physician of the Taiwan University, shared the effects of red koji and food precautions at NEWS 98. She pointed out that during the fermentation process, the ingredient Monacolin K in the red koji bacteria has the effect of inhibiting the synthesis of citric sterols, so the public is celebrating a hot tide of red koji, which has a hot koji rice, red koji meat, red koji chicken... appears on the dining table.

Various red koji health foods have been continuously found on the market, which can supplement the parts of normal diet and strengthen the sticky skin. Health foods and medicines have different functions in treating diseases. Medicines must undergo strict laboratory research and animal tests before they can enter the human clinical trial. Although red koji extract can regulate calcium, if taken with lipid-lowering drugs, cinnabar, and anticoagulant drugs, it is prone to adverse reactions; if grapefruit juice is used at the same time, the drug will have a multiplication effect and produce an overdose of the drug.

The disease of many people is not as good as taking medicine to lower sterol, but the abnormal blood lipids are in the gray border. The most important fundamental is to start with exercise and eating first and improve the lifestyle. For the same medicine, each person's reaction is also different. A small number of people will experience abnormal liver function and muscle pain after taking blood lipid-lowering drugs. They can discuss with the doctor about reducing the dose or changing the medicine. It is also recommended that blood should be drawn after taking the medicine for three months to check that there are no side effects.

Treatment drugs known to cause abnormal liver function

1. Anomaly of blood lipids: Statins drugs can cause a slightly elevated hepatitis index.

2. Pulmonary nucleation: Antinucleation drugs have some hepatotoxicity and are known risks.

3. Onychomycosis: Oral antibacterial drugs may cause abnormal liver function. Blood must be drawn for examination before taking it.

How to choose red koji products?

What should I choose about red koji? How to eat it? According to Ji Xiaojing, the first thing to do is to choose products that have obtained the "Healthy Food" certification stamp for small green people, and then pay attention to the shelf life. After opening the seal, it should be placed in a closed position to avoid bacteria invasion in the environment and produce bad attachments. During the fermentation process of red koji, if the environmental hygiene conditions are poor and it is easy to produce mycotoxins, you must choose the symbol marked with the vegetative food and pay attention to the daily consumption.

Some people mentioned that there will be food safety problems if self-made red koji is produced? Take "public sales offices and polite wines" as an example. The certified products have all passed the production line that meets the standards. Generally, traditional red koji may not be able to grasp the source of the material, and the effective ingredients of red koji are very low, so there are usually no problems, but it is recommended to eat them as soon as possible after production.