PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide novel foodstuffs with which the nutrition value and many medical effects possessed by job's tears (Cox lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen) and monascus and the medical effects of the monascus exhibit synergistic effects by using both of the job's tears and the monascus and raw materials for the same. SOLUTION: This process for producing the job's tears monascus consits in culturing the job's tears monascus by a two-stage system consisting of a first-stage fermentation for obtaining the monascus for seed by using rice, wheat or soybeans as raw materials and propagating the monascus and a second-stage fermentation for adding and mixing such monascus to and with the raw material job's tears made sterile by a pretreatment and culturing the job's tears. These foodstuffs are produced by using the resulted job's tears monascus, theαtype job's tears monascus obtd. by subjecting the job's tears monascus described above to steam sterilizing and ventilation drying and other food materials.
