Assessment of Monacolin in the Fermented Products Using Monascus purpureus FTC5391

Table 1

The efficiency of different solvents on quantity of monacolin K and quality of monacolins.

Solvents	Log P value	Number of peaks with similar UV spectrum of MK	Amount of MK extracted (mg/mL)
Methanol	−0.76	18	0.046
Ethanol	−0.31	17	0.044
Acetonitril	−0.34	15	0.044
Isopropanol	0.05	14	0.024
Butanol	0.8	12	0.0072
Ethyl acetate	0.7	9	0.002