Koji - the enzyme powerhouse

[00:00:00]What is koji? [music] Super short answer, koji is a fermented rice or barley or other grain using [music] the mold or fungus aspergillus oryzae. And koji is a enzyme [music] powerhouse. And what enzymes do is basically break things down [music] or transform them in other ways. For example, taking proteins and breaking them down into amino acids. This [music] is the enzyme called protease. Or taking starches and breaking those starches down into simple sugars. Koji has all of these enzymes [music] to break other things down or transform them in other ways.