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🛒 Looking to buy koji? Startercultures offers no less than 8 koji types, for all your koji needs. Choose the one that best fits your goal. If you have questions, hit us up in the chat.

  • Koji for miso

    From 17,99

    (37 customer reviews)

    This koji comes directly from Japan from the famous koji maker Hishiroku. It is best suited to make miso, but can also be widely used for shoyu, beans and other koji experiments. New: available for 5 or 200 kg of beans/grains.

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  • white koji

    From 17,99

    (32 customer reviews)

    This white koji starter is best for making koji rice, amazake (sweet sake), sake, white miso, shio-koji and other light-colored foods and beverages. Also known as light rice koji.

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  • Barley Koji 5kg

    From 17,99

    (22 customer reviews)

    Koji is the mold that can do anything. Miso, soy sauce, shoyu, shio koji, amazake, black bean sauce, sake, doungjun, they all owe their amazing texture and flavor to the fungus Aspergillus oryzae. This koji variant is best suited for use on barley.

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  • Base koji for shoyu

    From 17,09

    (26 customer reviews)

    This koji type is mainly meant for shoyu (soy sauce) making, but in our experience also a good all-rounder. If you do not know which koji to start with, this is the one to go for. Aavailable in 2 sizes: for 5 kg or 360 l. 

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  • luchuensis

    From 3,99

    Out of stock

    (16 customer reviews)

    Aspergillus luchuensis or Aspergillus awamori is a special type of koji. It is one of the ‘black kojis’ traditionally used to make Shochu, a distilled beverage. Available in 2 sizes: 5 grams for 5 kilograms or 200 grams for 200 kg. 

  • koji

    Original price was: €19,99.Current price is: €17,99.

    In stock

    (15 customer reviews)

    This koji is super easy to use as it’s rice that is already covered with koji mold! No need to steam your rice, no need to create the right temperature, humidity and timing. This has all been done for you.

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  • Red rice yeast

    Original price was: €9,99.Current price is: €8,99.

    In stock

    (6 customer reviews)

    Red yeast rice (also called red rice koji, anka or ang-kak) is a bright reddish-purple fermented rice, which gets its color by being fermented with the fungus Monascus purpureus.

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  • shio koji

    Original price was: €14,99.Current price is: €13,49.

    In stock

    (10 customer reviews)

    Shio koji gives depth to the flavor of food (umami). It is also perfect for marinating vegetables, and for making meat and poultry juicier and more tender.

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  • Aspergillus sojae

    From 17,99

    (1 customer review)

    Aspergillus sojae is used to make the ferment (kōji) of soy sauce, miso, mirin, and other fermented condiments such as tsukemono. You can make soysauce by fermenting soybeans with A. sojae, along with water and salt.

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  • Original price was: €19,99.Current price is: €17,99.

    In stock

    (4 customer reviews)

    Barley koji gives depth to the flavor of food (umami). One easy way to start using koji is with dried peeled barley koji grains.

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  • Rice shio koji

    Original price was: €12,99.Current price is: €11,69.

    In stock

    Rice shio koji gives depth to the flavor of food (umami). It is also perfect for marinating vegetables, and making meat and poultry juicier and tender.

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  • from 35,09

    (1 customer review)

    Make your own miso with this miso making kit! Everything’s included. Just add water. Enough for 2+ kg. With your choice of koji: rice, barley or emmer. Don’t forget to add your koji.

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