See What Happens Inside Your Body When You Eat Ramen Noodles

Ramen noodles contain Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ), which is a byproduct of the petroleum industry and food additive frequently to preserve cheap processed foods. It is one of those chemicals that is neither digestible or beneficial in any way for your body. A gastrointestinal specialist conducted an experiment with a time lapse video inside the stomach, comparing both fresh and preserved ramen noodles. After two hours of digestion, the results were staggering.

The first-of-its-kind experiment by Dr. Braden Kuo of Massachusetts General Hospital wanted to find out exactly what happens to food in the stomach and digestive tract after consuming ramen noodles.

Thanks to the “smart pill,” a camera the size of a multi-vitamin, Dr. Kuo could do his experiment, showingwhat happens in the gut of someone who ate a package of instant ramen noodles compared to fresh.

Dr. Kuo recorded 32 hours from the pill camera.

“What we’re seeing here is a stomach contracting back and forth as it’s trying to grind up the ramen noodles,” Dr. Kuo says of the beginning of the video.For comparison, the study volunteers also ate fresh, homemade ramen noodles on a different day.

The video at 20 minutes, and 2 hours, shows a striking difference.“The most striking thing about our experiment when you looked at a time interval, say in one or two hours, we noticed a processed ramen noodles were less broken down that homemade ramen noodles,” noted Dr. Kuo.

This affects nutrient absorption and could theoretically allow preservatives to linger longer periods in the stomach cavity before being transported to the intestines and subsequently .

 FOOD DISCUSSION 

1) What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘food’?
2) How often do you think about food? 
3) Can you eat anything? 
4) Can you go without food for a whole day?
 5) Do you have to watch what you eat? 
6) What is your favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner? 
7) Do you think your country’s food is the best?
 8) Do you think “you are what you eat”?
 9) What do you think about canned, frozen and processed food? 
10) What kinds of international cuisine do you like? 
11) Are you fussy or particular about the food you eat?
12) Have your favorite kinds of food changed over the years?