Shocking Video Reveals What Happens Inside Your Stomach When You Eat Instant Ramen Noodles

I recently wrote about a new study that revealed instant noodles were associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, especially in women. If you haven’t been put off by it yet, then you might re-think it after you read what happens to instant noodles inside your belly.

Scientists put a little, pill-sized camera inside the stomach of a person who just ate instant ramen noodles. This enabled them to follow the digestive process and observe what happens once the quick meal reaches the stomach. The results were disheartening for all instant noodle lovers. It appears that the body has great difficulty breaking these noodles down. After two hours, the meal was still more or less intact, which is very unusual. For comparison, when the participant ate homemade noodles, these digested much quicker, so after two hours there was hardly anything left to see in the stomach.

This small study was conducted by Dr. Braden Kuo of Massachusetts General Hospital, and was the first experiment of its kind. Dr. Kuo points out that his experiment doesn’t show instant noodles are necessarily harmful for you. The sample was too small, and further research is needed to establish the effects the slow digestive process has on the gastro-intestinal tract and your body as a whole. Dr. Kuo even admits still eating instant ramen noodles himself, but he does it in moderation.

Others are more cautious about eating instant noodles after this latest revelation. By staying in the stomach for so long, the noodles put a strain on the digestive tract as it has to work continuously. Also, instant ramen contains a lot of differentadditives and preservatives, which remain in the digestive tract for so long. It’s not sure what the long exposure does to the body, but it’s probably not that beneficial to your health.