Textile Company Origin Japan 's Mie Healthy Production Of Wood Tree

f the general food noodles made from wheat, this time is different from a Japanese textile company that produces noodles from hardwood trees. Yes, of wood, it sounds pretty crazy, the article humans do not use wood as a food ingredient.

As reported by Gizmodo, Wednesday (18/11/2015), the company producing wood noodles from dalah Omikenshi Co. based in Osaka, Japan. Yan textile company has been established since 90 years ago was to develop a technology that can mix sawdust or wood pulp which they refer to the type of other foodstuffs to be processed into noodles.

The workers of the company using the same technology, the making of textiles and making noodles, but specifically the materials used are different and certainly safe for humans. In particular they can make noodles low-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-calorie, and and without gluten. For example, noodles made from wheat have 1669 calories per pound, while noodles made from this tree only has 27 calories.
Konnyaku cultivation in Japan is quite high (Credit: Bloomberg)
Konnyaku cultivation by local farmers in Japan is quite high (Credit: Bloomberg)

The company hopes, they can replace the artificial noodle noodles made from wheat, and can be used as a substitute for food ramen or pasta. They also hope the noodles perusahaa can send to other countries, such as China where people are struggling with the obesity epidemic.

So how do I make noodles that tree? They start from cellulose fiber made from wood pulp or rayon called, which is where the company makes it special. This material can also be made as a clothing material or any kind of fabric. To produce special flour noodles, which they called "Cell-eat", they use a manufacturing process that is similar in a way to make rayon. They mix ingredients konnyaku (kind of tubers) with cellulose fiber made from wood pulp. The result creates a super healthy noodles which the company also claimed the noodle texture of the tree is more chewy noodles.
Healthy noodles made from a mixture of wood and konnyaku (Credit: Bloomberg)
Healthy noodles made from a mixture of cellulose fibers and konnyaku (Credit: Bloomberg)

In addition to creating innovations to make noodles from konnyaku wood and famous bitter to be eaten better, they also aim to increase the level of local farmers Japanese economy. Even Omikenshi poured funds of 8 million USD to establish a factory in southern Japan. The factory can produce 3 million tons of noodles tree in a month and began operations in 2016.

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