Perpustakaan Digital ITB

Progress Research on Monascus pigments has been very rapidly, includes the discovery of new pigments and methods used for the isolation and identification of new pigments. Currently, nearly fifty seven new pigments have been found which are derivatives of the six main pigments that already exist. The process of discovery of new pigments can not be separated from the process which are carried out during fermentation or during the isolation. This review includes data from all fifty new pigments following chemical structure data, chemical formula, the level of water solubility, the value of Log P, Monascus strain, substrates used in the fermentation process and methode to identification. Data collected from various studies that have been done before, and added with some of the new data. The aim of this review is to give more comprehensive data about Monascus pigments.