Recently, a food-related movie, "Love in the Buff," is being shown in major cinemas across our country. In the film, the character played by actor Takeshi Kaneshiro, a dominant CEO, is almost obsessively particular and demanding about his taste in food. What is perhaps most memorable is his special fondness for instant noodles. A pack of ordinary instant noodles can achieve an ultimate texture through precise control of the cooking time. In recent years, there has been continuous debate in our society about instant noodles. For example, some say instant noodles are low in nutrition, contain preservatives and artificial flavors, and are junk food. Others claim that eating a bowl of instant noodles requires the liver to detoxify for 32 days... Is this really true?
In fact, instant noodles are not junk food because they contain some inherent nutritional components of food and can quickly satisfy hunger when other food is unavailable. Instant noodles are high in oil, fat, and salt. As a fast food, the dehydrated vegetables and sauce packets cannot provide a balanced dietary structure, so the nutrition is not well-balanced. However, this does not mean instant noodles should be classified as "junk food."
The claim that "it takes the liver 32 days to detoxify after eating instant noodles" originated from an experiment. The purpose of the experiment was to compare the ease with which "processed foods" and "additive-free foods" are digested and absorbed by the human body. Compared to hand-pulled noodles, instant noodles simply take a little longer to be digested.
The harm that instant noodles can cause to the human body is actually due to long-term and excessive consumption as a sole source of nutrition, leading to an unbalanced diet, excessive intake of oil, salt, and food additives, which increases the metabolic burden on various organs of the body.