Consumers continue to enjoy a big love affair with noodles. While sales of Asian rice noodles and buckwheat soba noodles, and dishes featuring them, have grown by leaps and bounds, Italian durum pasta is a mainstay in every US home. Yet the category keeps expanding with newer noodle offerings, such as mung bean noodles and yam pasta (commonly from the healthful Asian konjac yam).
Newer to the American market are pastas from peas, lentils, chick peas, black beans, soy and adzuki beans.