Macaroni are made from wheat flour, carbonic salt water, pure salt, soft water and other additives. Carbonic salt water with sodium or potassium carbonate as the main constituent is an important additive giving the stickiness, elasticity, smoothness and good taste. Macaroni is a variety of dry pasta traditionally shaped into narrow tubes, produced in various shapes and sizes. Spaghetti is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. Spaghettoni is a thicker form of spaghetti, while capellini is a very thin spaghetti. It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. In India, vermicelli is made from plain wheat flour or maida but in most of the western countries. Atta or maida noodles is a ready to cook and serve snack food which has become very popular in India in the recent years after its introduction on mass scale of M/s. Food Specialties Ltd, New Delhi under the brand name "Maggi" which is an instant noodle made out of flour.
India is the world’s second largest producer of food next to China but accounts for less than 1.5% of International food trade. The global market for pasta can be classified into spaghetti, macaroni, and noodles. “In the Indian pasta market, which is estimated at Rs 700 crores, over 70% of gourmet pastas are manufactured by Indian brands,” said Udit Jain, Director of Rajdhani Group. Thus, due to demand it is best to invest in this project.
Few Indian major players are as under
· Bambino Agro Inds. Ltd.
· C G Foods India Pvt. Ltd.
· Capital Foods Ltd.
· G D Foods Mfg. (India) Pvt. Ltd.
· Inbisco India Pvt. Ltd.
· Indo Nissin Foods Pvt. Ltd.
