PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing noodles which is adequately loosened in cooking and eating, hardly causes binding of noodle strings, and is excellent in texture.SOLUTION: A method for producing noodles includes a step of mixing a dough raw material containing cereal flour and noodle string loosening improving agent with water to produce a noodle dough. After the lapse of a predetermined time from mixing the dough raw material other than the noodle string loosening improving agent with the water, the noodle string loosening improving agent is added and mixed with the mixture. Preferably, 0.1-10 pts.mass of the noodle string loosening improving agent is added with respect to 100 pts.mass of the cereal flour in the mixture. The noodle string loosening improving agent preferably contains at least one kind selected from emulsified fat, lecithin, monoglyceride, saponin, sodium caseinate, polysorbate, and fatty acid ester and polysaccharides.SELECTED DRAWING: None
