JAPAN [Kanagawa]
Japanese Ingredients for the World’s Top Kitchens #30
NOODLES AND WRAPS
Freshly Milled Flour, Wholesome Flavor
2023.07.03
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Each new day at Kaneko Seimen starts with milling the wheat grain.“There’s no doubt that freshly milled flour makes better noodles,” says President Takashi Kaneko. The milling machine is a model that leaves the bran on, making the company’s noodles and top-selling whole-wheat gyoza dumpling wraps richer in flavor and more nutritionally balanced than those made with refined flour.
“We introduced whole-wheat products when my father’s health failed,” says Kaneko. It was the 1970s, and interest in nutritive health was on the rise. The ingredients are simple: medium-strength, all-purpose flour from the no. 61 wheat cultivar used widely in Japan; Australian salt for the noodles and sea salt from Kochi prefecture for the wraps; and electrolyzed water from Nakai-machi’s underground springs.


Climate-controlled storage prevents bug infestation and optimizes the wheat ’s moisture content.

(photo left) It ’s unusual for one factory to handle both milling and product manufacture. All grains used by Kaneko Seimen are domestically grown.
(photo right) Gyoza wraps on the production line.

Unlike larger models that separate the bran from the rest of the grain, this milling machine makes only whole-wheat flour.

(photo left)Both whole-wheat and refined versions of gyoza, spring-roll, and dumpling wraps are made.
(photo right)Dried noodles, too, come in whole-wheat and refined options.

President Takashi Kaneko.
◎Kaneko Seimen
994 Tanaka, Nakai-machi, Kanagawa
☎0465-81-0425
https://www.kanekoseimen.co.jp/
(The Cuisine Magazine /July 2017)
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