Yellowed rice
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Yellowed rice (also yellow rice, Japanese: 黄変米 Ouhenmai) refers to three kinds of rice grains contaminated with different strains of Penicillium fungi—Yellow rice (P. citreonigrum), Citrinum yellow rice (P. citrinum), and Islandia yellow rice (P. islandicum). These rice grains were first identified in Japan in 1964, after the research was interrupted by World War II. The first of the yellowed rice strains has been linked to shoshin-kakke (heart-attacking paralysis). Citrinum yellow rice and Islandia yellow rice are not known to have caused any adverse effects in human populations.
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