Why wheat is cut green

In the Chengguan Township of Mengjin County in Luoyang, northwest of Henan Province, people harvest wheat earlier than in other places, and they cut the wheat when it is still green, knocking down the green kernels that still have water in them to make the locally famous delicacy.

The milling process involves cutting, threshing, washing, boiling, frying, peeling, chaffing, drying, and grinding, etc. The final milling process is also green, but it has more of the green flavor of wheat and tastes sweeter than the noodles made from mature wheat.