Noodles originated in China and have a history of making and eating for more than 4,000 years.

The story of noodles begins with China, the “Noodle Empire”. China has a vast territory, and thousands of years of cooking smoke have given birth to more than 2,000 kinds of noodle recipes, which have influenced the noodle culture of the entire East Asia. However, neither the noodles nor wheat, the main raw material for making noodles, originate here.

The Chinese hieroglyph "Mai" originally meant "people coming from afar". When combined with the word "面" for noodles, it became "面" (the traditional Chinese character for "面"), and wheat And noodles made from wheat flour did come from afar thousands of years ago.

Wheat, which has an annual output of 600 million tons and has become the staple food for 60% of the world’s population, was first born in the farming civilization of Mesopotamia 9,000 years ago.

About 6,500 years after its birth, wheat cultivation technology, together with noodle-making technology, began to spread from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, across the Balkans and the 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 the Mediterranean countries is also called the "Noodle Road".

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The value of noodles

1. Noodles contain copper, although the demand for copper in our bodies is not very high. Big, but copper is indispensable as a trace element in our bodies, and noodles happen to contain copper. Copper plays a very good role in the development of our hair, so friends Eating some noodles in moderation can also play a role in nourishing your hair.

2. Noodles play a very good role in helping friends nourish their stomachs. Therefore, friends with stomach indigestion can insert noodles into their staple food when eating. Because noodles It is easier to absorb, and the soup noodles can also help friends warm their stomachs. Friends with weak stomachs can eat more noodles to nourish their stomachs.

3. Noodles contain low calories. The noodles will absorb a lot of water during the cooking process. 100 grams of noodles will become 400 grams after cooking.

4. Noodles have the characteristic of suppressing appetite, because noodles are digested slowly in the stomach, making people feel full for a long time and making them less likely to be hungry.

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