What Are Noodles Made Of?

What are noodles made of? In general, noodles are made of wheat flour, but some places use corn flour and others to make noodles, and to increase the gluten of the noodles, people add some cooking oil and salt to the flour.
 
Why use wheat flour?
The nutrients in flour are mainly starch, then there are protein, fat, vitamins and minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. Whole wheat flour is the most nutritious, whole wheat flour is rich in vitamin B1, B2, B6, nicotinic acid, calcium, iron, zinc and other trace elements.
 
How to choose good flour?
To make high-quality noodles, you need to choose quality flour.
Look: Quality flour is white or yellowish in color, fine powder, put it in your hand and squeeze it, it will not stick. The color of inferior flour is dim, show grey or dark yellow, color is dim, color is not uniform, have impurity, agglomerate easily. Excessive addition of a brightener, gray-white, even greyish.
Smell: Take a small amount of flour and smell it, good flour has no smell, low quality flour slightly smelly, moldy, sour, kerosene and other odors.
Touch: when you touch good flour by hand, your hands feel cool, if the flour sticks together when clenched, it means that the flour has too much moisture and with poor quality.
Taste:Chew with a little flour, the quality flour is mild and with a little sweet. Slightly peculiar smell, and ferment, sweet, bitter and other peculiar smell, tingling throat feeling, when chewing the sound of the sand for low quality, inferior flour.
 
After our introduction, you may know what are noodles made of, and how to choose the good materials. If you have other question, please contact us for free.