INSTANT NOODLES SIDE EFFECTS.
That we all enjoy eating instant noodles doesn’t mean that it’s 110 % good for our health. Noodles are food for the stomach like any other food but has some side effects. These side effects are more pronounced when people cook plain noodles with just seasoning and water.
The addition of vegetables, especially fresh vegetables not canned and processed ones sha. The addition of vegetables to our noodles meals can help with reduce some side effects.
Instant noodles side effects may be experienced soon after eating or later. These side effects may never even show if we learn to cook noodles the proper way like how we prepare noodles for babies. Parboiling like we did on that noodle recipe can reduce or completely take away these bad effects.
If your kids are the noodle loving type, try as much as possible to make them add vegetables, especially onion. Onion goes really well with noodles and it has medicinal properties. Noodles are fast foods
that should come in when we need to eat in a hurry and go out. Noodles Should come in when we need to do some emergency cooking. If you can, even though the kids love noodles so much, prevent them from eating this daily. It shouldn’t be a daily food. They should skip it some days and eat other foods too.
All the nutrition they are getting from noodles is just carbohydrates. Ordinary plain carbohydrates that will not even boost their immune systems. Adding enough vegetables is the only way to make noodles nutritious.
I don’t know of any other way that we can make our noodle meals healthy.
Without preaching much, let’s look at some instant noodles side effects as listed here.
HEALTHY NOODLE RECIPES ON THE BLOG:
To help reduce the health hazards of noodles, if your kids love this food so much they can’t skip it at all, let them try our nutritious recipes cooked with vegetables;
- Fried noodles
- Jollof Noodles with egg and kpomo
- Noodles cooked with baked beans in tomato sauce
- Fried noodles with fried fish, sausages, carrots and green peas
- Noodles with sardines, chicken and crunchy vegetables
- Noodles with scent leaves
It is important to note that some instant noodles are fortified with nutrients like folate, iron, manganese and B Vitamins. Not all o. Some are even made with fortified wheat flour. That’s good!
INSTANT NOODLE SIDE EFFECTS
- First and foremost, since we are all in the race on different weight loss journeys, let me start with that. Noodles are loaded with heavy calories and can help us gain weight fast. Carbohydrates are responsible for most of our weight gain. Weight gain on its own has side effects; can lead to heart diseases and other health problems.
- Noodles are low in fiber. If you cook them without other sources of fiber, you are on your own when it comes to bowel movement. Vegetables can help add fiber though, especially green leafy vegetables with their stalk. I mean soft stalk, like the one the mallams cut of when you shop aleho green amaranth. That soft stalk they cut and throw away is what the body needs as fiber also known as roughages.
- With the absence of fiber in plain noodle meals, it makes you eat more than you should before feeling full. Fiber helps provide that feeling of fullness that’s absent when you cook plain noodles. This makes it difficult with weight management.
- Some people have connected instant noodles to cancer. Can anyone confirm that for us please?
- The wax used in coating noodles, some believe it isn’t healthy for human consumption. Parboiling may remove that wax.
- Who will volunteer to let us use their body to experiment? Like eat noodles every day for three months lets see what happens… Noodles we hear shouldn’t be eaten everyday, like I said earlier. Noodles are crabs and can counter your weight loss journey.