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Glass noodles are made from vegetable starch â most commonly mung bean, and less often sweet potato, or pea. Semi-translucent when dry, when freshly cooked, glass noodles are truly glass-like and translucent. Weâve pulled together a brief guide to help you choose and cook the right vermicelli below.
Cooks in Europe and the U.S prefer to call these noodles as cellophane noodles as they become transparent like cellophane (sticking) tape when cooked! Cellophane noodles are made from green mung beans, the beans are polished before use and that is why you do not see the greenish color on these transparent noodles. At times if you observe the entire bunch of cellophabe noodles when unpacked, you might notice some green fragments stuck to the noodles.