Red Yeast Rice is rice that has been fermented by the red yeast, Monascus purpureus. It has been used by the Chinese for many centuries as a food preservative, food colorant (it is responsible for the red color of Peking duck), spice, and ingredient in rice wine. Red yeast rice continues to be a dietary staple in China, Japan, and Asian communities in the United States, with an estimated average consumption of 14 to 55 grams of red yeast rice per day per person.
Red yeast rice also has been used in China for over 1,000 years for medicinal purposes. Red yeast rice was described in an ancient Chinese list of drugs as useful for improving blood circulation and for alleviating indigestion and diarrhea.
Recently, red yeast rice has been developed by Chinese and American scientists as a product to lower blood lipids, including cholesterol and triglycerides.
Since the 1970s, human studies have reported that red yeast lowers blood levels of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein/LDL ("bad cholesterol"), and triglyceride levels.

Warne, I take Red Yeast Rice (that exact same brand to which you linked). But I've never tried it with spam.

Never tried it with spam either, until today. Don't care much for spam.

I take red yeast rice, but I don't think it's any cheaper to get it the spam way than it is for me to just get in the car and drive to Whole Paycheck for it. --J--

Spam leaves me with such a feeling of indigestion!

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Originally posted by Daisy Dew:
Spam leaves me with such a feeling of indigestion!

And I'm not sure what it does to my cholesterol, but I know it raises my blood pressure! --J--

Are we talking about spam the food or spam on the internet?.. ..either of which can give you indigestion

Thanx for the info and link re red yeast rice.