Instant NoodLes Information

[AdeLine]

FYI... Not as simple as it looks to prepare one.

The correct way to eat instant noodles without harming our bodies and health.

Normally, how we cook the instant noodles is to put the noodles into a pot with water, throw in the powder and let it cook for 3 mins around and then ready to eat.

This is the WRONG method of cooking the instant noodles. By doing this, when we actually boil the ingredients in the powder, normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structures of the MSG causing it to be toxic. The other thing that you may or may not realized is that, the noodles are coated with wax and it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have taken the noodles.

So the CORRECT method, which you may or may not know, is to cook the noodles this way :

1. Boil the noodles in a pot with water.
2. Once the noodles is cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.
3. Boil another pot of water till boiling and put the noodles into the hot boiling water and then shut the fire.
4. Only at this stage when the fire is off, and while the water is very hot, put the ingredient with the powder into the water, to make noodle soup.
5. However, if you need dry noodles, take out the noodles n add the ingredient with the powder and toss it to get dry noodles.

Hope this piece of information is of importance to your health in relation to eating instant noodles.
And please apply this cooking method with immediate effect :p

[birdy]

Gee...guess a lot of people will cook the soup using the noodles water too. I do normally change the water to cook soup because the very first pot of water is yellowish.

However, some instant noodles (if I remember well - Mama Tom Yam), you have to cook the soup using the noodles water. I tried changed the water before and the instant noodle came out to be tasteless. I think they have some special ingredients inside the mee that made the mee delicious.

Anyway... your information is of great help in educating people. Just wonder where did you find such a piece of information?

[AdeLine]

I''ve received this piece of info frm my friend yest. Then I found this info is quite useful indeed, so jz share it with the forumers here :D

Frankly speaking, I'll always put everything (noodle, powder / ingredients) into the boiling water whenever I cook instant mee. Then leave it for 5 minutes before consume.

But now, I gotta change my way of cooking instant noodle after reading this :p

However, it's even better if we can cutdown the consumption of instant mee, no nutrition at all :rolleyes: Sometimes, jz no choice, too lazy to go out 'da bao'.... end up, 'stuffed' myself with 'maggi mee', hehehe!!

[jianwei85]

wah...i oso lazy...now neeed so much work..then i go outside eat wan tan mee lo
hahaha

[AdeLine]

Errmm..... better store some packets of biscuits, cornflakes/cereals in your larder. Jz in case, if really lazy to cook / go outside 'da bao', then at least got other food to eat :p

[mon]

Or, stock up on sandwiches, more nutritious than instant noodles. I've been having sandwiches of all kinds like for the past few months :P Not bored with them yet, as I buy from a variety of bakeries. And it's perfect with a hot cuppa coffee in the mornings or milo in the evenings.

[kwchang]

...normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structures of the MSG causing it to be toxic. The other thing that you may or may not realized is that, the noodles are coated with wax and it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have taken the noodles...This is the part that makes the message sound incredible. Wax in the noodles? I don't think so. Anyway, wax is inert and consuming wax should not be harmful. Instant noodles are fried to remove the water content, it is not waxed.

Molecular structure of MSG gets changed by boiling? I know I am lousy at chemistry but I do not think that is true.

By the way, I was looking for some instant noodles at the supermarket last night - almost all the noodle brands use MSG in their ingredients except for one - Koka noodles from a Singapore manufacturer.

[Teeque]

Some answers frm the Straight Dope Advisory Board abt instant noodles... (http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mramen.html)

[candle]

I've never heard of wax on instant noodles either but let's just assume wax is used, I believe there is wax that is perfectly safe for human consumption like those used on certain fruits to prolong their shelf life. One of the concerns one should probably have are the chemicals and artificial ingredients used, the amounts of saturated fats and sodium.