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What Is Vermicelli Made Of?

2018-09-28
Vermicelli is a traditional round noodles, but what is vermicelli made of? usually, the vermicelli made of rice.
 
The nutritional ingredients of vermicelli are mainly carbohydrates, dietary fiber, protein, niacin, calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, sodium and other minerals. vermicelli have good taste, it can absorb the flavor of all kinds of soup, and the vermicelli is soft and smooth, more refreshing and pleasant.
 What is vermicelli made of
What is vermicelli made of?
In Italy
The vermicelli made of flour, egg and salt, mix them into dough and then make into thin noodles.
In China
The vermicelli made of rice or rice flour, sometimes, people will add other starch flour and material to make the vermicelli with different taste, then extrude by the rice vermicelli making machine.
 The vermicelli in different countries made of different raw material, specific ingredients are determined according to local eating habits.

Why vermicelli made of rice?
Rice contains about 75% carbohydrates, protein 7 -8%, fat 1.3 -1. 8%, it is also rich in B vitamins and so on. The carbohydrates in rice are mainly starch, the protein contained is mainly rice gluten, next are rice glue protein and globulin, the raw price of protein and composition of amino acids are higher than grain crops such as wheat, barley, millet and corn. The digestibility is 66.8%-83.1%, which is also the higher of cereal protein.
Therefore, rice has a higher nutritional value, but the content of lysine and threonine in rice protein is less, so it's not a complete protein, it is less nutritious than animal protein.
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