Gathers the shaped doughs of grain or starch that are boiled and served as a staple. It includes the Italian pasta shapes spaghetti, penne, macaroni, fettuccine, rigatoni, fusilli, linguine, farfalle, tagliatelle, orecchiette, bucatini, conchiglie, ziti, rotini, cavatappi, orzo and vermicelli, and the Asian noodles udon, soba, ramen, egg, rice, glass and shirataki noodles and rice vermicelli. Within the Cereal Grains, Pseudocereals and Pasta subcategory it sits beside the groups Wheat, Rice, Maize and Other Major Grains, Millets and Regional Small Grains, Pseudocereals, Flours, Meals, Starches and Bread, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.