Whether you just want something quick to eat or you are a starving college student who can only afford the yummy tasting noodles. Well these noodles might be a good tasting and cheap meal for you, but how good are they actually for you or are they a destroyer to your body?

Ramen noodles are a Japanese soup that contain noodles and sometimes vegetables.   The noodles are like a Chinese style wheat noodle. The noodles are made with processed wheat flower. Now a person may think “oh wheat, that means it should be pretty good for me”, but they are missing out on a word “processed”. Processed foods are not always the best thing for a person.” The reason is because processed foods are food that chemically and artificial substances have been added to them. “(authority nutrition).  It is said that processed foods such as burgers fries, etc are one of reasons why many Americans and people all across the world are becoming so overweight. Most of the processed foods are quick and cheap to get so that’s why people are so attracted to them.

Getting back to the noodles and the processed wheat flower they are made of, according to nutritionist J.J Rinne ” the processed wheat flower your gylcemac, or have a higher Glycimic index and increase the risk of things such as diabetes” (news channel 10). Now this just one of the aspects of the noodles that are said to be bad for you, but their is also the flavor packets that are also a part of this. On the back of a Ramen Noodle package the amount of Sodium is 910 milligrams. That’s a lot. Too much salt for a person can effect a persons blood pressure, and lead to other health risks, and also it can mes around with a persons digestive system.

Going back to processed foods they can be harder to digest in a persons body.It sometimes takes longer for certain foods to digest in a persons body. There was actually an experiment that was done with the digestion of Ramen Noodles. Doctors compared the difference between a person digesting regular processed ramen noodles, and person digesting homemade ramen noodles.  The volunteers had a pill inside of them that allowed doctors to see inside the body and to see what exactly was going on with the noodles inside of the bodies. In the end according to Dr. Braden Kuo from Massachusetts hospital saw that ” after about one to two hours they noticed that the processed ramen noodles were less broken down that homemade noodles.” (prevent disease).  Foods are not suppose to take a long time to digest in a persons body, so this experiment basically show what ramen noodles were doing in the body, and how long the digestive process took.

I personally enjoy Ramen Noodles, but I do not eat them on occasion, because of the high sodium it has, and also because it is a processed food. I think if people eat ramen on an occasion that it isn’t too bad for you, but too much of any kind of processed food, and other certain foods is usually bad for you.

Here is the video of the persons digestive system after eating Ramen noodles…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/ramen-digestion_n_1263825.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/ramen-digestion_n_1263825.html

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/26512269/health-experts-say-eating-too-much-ramen-noodles-may-cause-long-term-health-risk

http://preventdisease.com/news/14/011914_This-Is-What-Happens-In-Your-Stomach-When-You-Consume-Packaged-Ramen-Noodles.shtml

http://authoritynutrition.com/9-ways-that-processed-foods-are-killing-people/