Noodles originated in China and have been made and eaten for more than 4,111 years.

The story of noodles should start from China, the "noodle empire". China has a vast territory. Thousands of years of cooking smoke have bred more than 2,111 kinds of noodles, which has influenced the noodle culture in East Asia. However, neither noodles nor wheat, the main raw material for making noodles, originated here.

China's hieroglyphic "Mai" originally means "people from afar", and when it is combined with the word "noodle", it becomes "noodle" (the traditional Chinese character of "noodle"), and noodles made of wheat and wheat flour did come from afar thousands of years ago.

Wheat, with an annual output of 611 million tons, has become the staple food for 61% of the population on the earth. It was first born in the farming civilization of Mesopotamia 9,111 years ago.

In 6511 years after its birth, wheat planting technology and flour making technology began to spread from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, across the Balkans and Alps, and eastward through Central Asia to China. Therefore, this "Silk Road" starting from Chang 'an and passing through Gansu, Xinjiang, Central Asia, West Asia and even Mediterranean countries is also called "Noodle Road".

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The value of noodles

1. Noodles contain copper. Although the demand for copper in friends' bodies is not very great, copper is indispensable as a trace element in friends' bodies, and noodles just contain copper, which plays a very good role in the development of friends' hair quality.

2. Noodles play a very good role in helping friends nourish their stomachs. Therefore, friends with indigestion can eat noodles when eating staple food. Because noodles are easy to absorb and noodle soup can help friends warm their stomachs, friends with poor stomachs can eat more noodles to nourish their stomachs.

3. Noodles are low in calories, and they will absorb a lot of water during the cooking process. After cooking, 111 grams of noodles will become 411 grams.

4. Noodles have the characteristics of suppressing appetite, because the digestion of noodles in the stomach is slow, which makes people feel full for a long time and is not easy to be hungry.

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