Recently, a new construction for complete loop integrands of massless fieldtheories has been proposed, with on-shell tree-level amplitudes delicatelyincorporated into its algorithm. This new approach reinterprets integrands in anovel form, namely the Q-cut representation. In this paper, by derivingone-loop integrands as examples, we elaborate in details the technique of thisnew representation, e.g., the summation over all possible Q-cuts as well ashelicity states for the non-scalar internal particle in the loop. Moreover, weshow that the integrand in the Q-cut representation naturally reduces to theintegrand in the traditional unitarity cut method for each given cut channel,providing a cross-check for the new approach.