Just about everyone has heard of Ramen noodles, at some point in their life.
Ramen noodles generally contain Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ), a by-product of the petroleum industry and a harmful and certainly unnecessary food additive which is also found in cosmetics, perfumes, and lacquers, among other things. In very high doses it can actually cause death.
Food Products Containing TBHQ:
- CHEEZ-IT Crackers by Kelloggs
- Butterfinger & Reese’s Peanut butter cups
- Nestle
- Microwave popcorn
- Wheat Thins
- Aldi products
- Keebler Club crackers
- Red Barron frozen pizza
- Kellogs eggo frozen waffles and many other kellog products
- Taco bell beans and some taco shells
- Teddy Grahams
- Keebler Cookies
- Pam cooking spray
- TastyKake
- Little Debbie
- McDonalds
- KFC beans and fried chicken
- Kellog’s Pop-Tarts
- Homestyle Peanut butter cookies
- Some forms of soymilk
- Crisco oil
- Wrigley’s gum
- Little Debbies nutty bars and some M&M products
There are actually many more products that contain TBHQ, but this will give you an idea of what to look out for.
Dr. Braden Kuo of Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an experiment with a tiny camera, the size of a pill, to find out exactly what happens to food in the stomach after consuming ramen noodles. Both fresh, homemade ramen noodles and processed ramen noodles were observed.
“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 than the homemade ramen noodles.”