From Hard to Soft: A Look Into Cup Ramen

Company: Nissin

Product: Cup Noodles

Price: 75 Cents Per Cup

Consumer: Possibly You

Do you enjoy ramen? Do you like food to cook fast? Are you willing to go the depths, or rather heights, of high blood pressure for tasty food at any whim? If you answered yes to all of these, you might just like to have Nissin’s Ramen noodle cup (it’s a cup of ramen noodles with corn, carrots, and some flavoring), but if you value your health, you might not want to ingest this messy slew of sodium and fat. The fourteen grams of fat and one-thousand-eight hundred-twenty milligrams of sodium make the cup of noodles taste great, but while your taste buds say yes, your stomach may say no. If you’re fine with having high blood pressure then you may not care about this other thing that is put into ramen noodles: Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone. Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone is an additive they put in styrofoam cups, and plastic. Definitely not the healthiest thing in the world. It also takes quite a while to cool down, like an oddly long time, even when you put in the fridge or the freezer so it is kind of annoying. For what it struggles in good and healthy ingredients; it sure makes up for in taste, texture, and entertainment. As far as taste goes, cup noodles are not bad at all. There are plenty of diverse ingredients: corn, carrots, ramen (of course), and flavorings ranging from chicken broth to beef broth. The presentation is rather entertaining due to the food itself, not the cup, the cup is ugly. You can pour hot water in the cup and then BAM–from a noodle brick to a noodle mop, so again, pretty entertaining. Also, while it tastes good and looks good, these cup noodles are also very cheap: running at about seventy-five cents per cup. The cup is genuinely hideous, but it isn’t all bad. The cup has a nice font on the words, and you can use for more than just to house the tasty, fast-cooking noodles. You can use the cup as a pot to put plants in, you can use it as a non insulated coffee mug maybe even a cup for water. Nothing will ever fix how ugly the cup is though. Nothing, So, apart from the unhealthy ingredients, the cup design, and the cool down time. Cup noodles are quite good, and worthy of being tried at least once.