Noodles originated in China during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

China, Arabia and Italy have all claimed to be the birthplace of noodles, but the earliest available written record of noodles is from China during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But in 2005, Ye Maolin, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, found noodles more than 4,000 years old, about 50 centimeters long and 0.3 centimeters wide, made of corn, in the Lajia site in Minhe County, Qinghai Province, which was buried by an earthquake about 4,000 years ago. With the earliest textual and physical evidence to back up this discovery, it is clear that the noodles originated in China.

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The value of noodles

1, noodles contain copper, although the copper element in the body of friends is not a very big demand, but the copper element as the friends of the body of the trace elements can not be lack of, and the noodles happen to contain copper, copper elements for friends The development of hair quality plays a very good role, so friends eat some noodles in moderation can also play a role in hair.

2, the noodles to help friends of the stomach is played a very good effect, so for the stomach indigestion of friends in the consumption of staple food can be interspersed with the noodles to eat, because the noodles are better absorbed, but also the soup noodles can help friends to warm the stomach, the stomach is not good friends can eat more noodles to stomach.

3, noodles contain low calories, noodles in the cooking process will absorb a lot of water, 100 grams of noodles after cooking into 400 grams.

4, noodles have the characteristic of appetite suppression, because the digestion of noodles in the stomach is slow, so that people have a feeling of fullness for a long time, not easy to hunger.

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