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A wooden tray of white koji-covered rice with a cluster lifted on a wooden spatula, beside bowls of polished rice and dark miso on a warm ivory surface.
Koji intake

Koji: the mould, the grain and the work they do

Koji is grain or beans grown with a mould whose enzymes break food down. This guide separates the mould, the starter and the finished koji, and follows them into sake, amazake, miso, soy sauce and shio-koji.

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