The invention relates to a method for producing
monascus pigment with low content of
citrinin by using rice as
raw material, and the process thereof consists of the following steps: (1)
rice milk is prepared; (2) the
rice milk is added with 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent of
ammonium nitrate, 0.15 percent to 0.25 percent of
potassium dihydrogenphosphate, 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent of
manganese sulfate, 1 percent to 2 percent of maize pulp and 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent of soybean
powder, and the obtained mixture is heated to 121 DEG C to be kept for 20 minutes, and then cooled to 35 DEG C to 40 DEG C to obtain a
fermentation culture solution; (3)
monascus strains are transferred to a seed culture medium to be cultivated for 50 hours under the temperature of 31 DEG C to 33 DEG C, after being cultivated on a
solid slant plane, and then an enlarged
monascus culture solution is obtained; (4) 8 percent to 10 percent of the enlarged monascus culture solution is fed into the
fermentation culture solution, and the obtained mixture is kept under the temperature of 31 DEG C to 37 DEG C, stirred and cultivated for 20 hours, hereafter, octanoic acid with the weight equal to 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent of the weight of rice and
methyl ketone with the weight equal to 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent of the weight of rice are added, then the temperature is kept, and the mixture is stirred and cultivated for 85 hours to 95 hours, while the pressure of a fermentor is kept to be 0.04MPa to 0.06MPa so as to obtain a
fermentation liquor; (5) the fermentation liquor is filtered, and the obtained filtrate is treated with
spray drying or
freeze drying after membrane concentration. The monascus
pigment obtained by the method consists of less than 0.05 mg / kg of the monascus when color value is higher than 200.