The legal raw material for pasta is durum wheat.

Dulam wheat has a hard texture, also known as durum wheat. It has high-quality starch, high density, protein and gluten. Making durum wheat the best and most suitable material for pasta products. Today, 10% of the wheat grown in the world is durum wheat, which is mainly used to make pasta.

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1. Duran wheat, the hardest wheat variety, has a higher protein content than the hard red spring wheat used to grind bread flour. Flour milled from durum wheat has coarser particles than ordinary flour. Durum wheat flour has a special name, semolina.

2. Canada, the European Union and the United States are the main producing areas of durum wheat. In addition, Turkey and Syria also produce considerable amounts of durum wheat. These two countries are geographically close to the birthplace of durum wheat.

3. Pasta has different shapes according to the type. In addition to the straight noodles that the Chinese think of as noodles, there are also screw-shaped, elbow-shaped, butterfly-shaped, hollow-shaped, and shell-shaped. There are hundreds of different types.

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