subject: Advantages and Disadvantages of Instant Noodles [print this page] Advantages and Disadvantages of Instant Noodles
Nowadays, the working pressure of many people has been increased sharply in modern times. In order to save time, it has been a common habit to eat instant noodles in our daily life. Therefore, instant noodles are a kind of essential food. However, instant noodles have always been regarded as junk food without any nutrition. In fact, many people are not sure at all about whether instant noodles have nutrition or not.
The way to produce instant noodles is familiar to most of us. Generally speaking, except the instant noodle itself, at least two material bags are contained inside the packaging bag. One is liquid seasoning packet or soy sauce bag containing animal oil, and the other is powder bag with salt, flavor agent, spice, seafood and so on. Sometimes, another bag of dehydrated vegetables is also contained in packaging bag. The nutrition of fried instant noodles is composed of flour and oil, which has nothing different from the nutrition of deep-fried pancake at all. As the temperature of frying instant noodles is relatively low and the time is short, the toxic substances like acrylamide as well as the nutrients are reduced.
The content of oil contained in instant noodles takes up about 16% to 20% with less than 10% of protein. Then the rest is starch. All the content of vitamin B and minerals comes from flour. However, the content of vitamin B and minerals contained in processed instant noodles is less than that contained in flour. That is to say that the nutrients contained in instant noodles are much less than those contained in ordinary cooked wheaten foods like steamed bread and baked pancakes. However, the content of oil in instant noodles is much higher.
Instant noodle is a kind of convenient food containing some basic nutrients needed by the human body. It can provide sugar, oil and protein for people. In fact, instant noodle is also a kind of staple food contained oil and salt. But instant noodles can not take the place of vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs and milk in our daily life. If people take instant noodles as the only food for dinner, the amount of fat provided by instant noodles is much higher than the ideal amount. In addition, the content of protein is relatively low. If people always eat instant noodles to take the place of the normal dinner in everyday life, many problems like the nutrition imbalance and trace element loss will be caused to threaten the human health.
