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Category: > Health > These Popular Noodles Cause Chronic Inflammation, Weight Gain, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Disease…

These Popular Noodles Cause Chronic Inflammation, Weight Gain, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Disease…

Nov 6, 2017 Carly Fraser Save For Later Print

Last Updated: Oct 30, 2018

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While processed foods may provide an easy convenience for those living in this fast-paced society, depending on it too much can lead to serious health issues.

Instant noodles (and other foods listed below) contain Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ), which is a by-product of the petroleum industry. It is also a food additive that is frequently used to preserve cheap, processed foods.

Unfortunately, our bodies cannot process TBHQ (no surprises here), and Dr. Braden Kuo of Massachusetts General Hospital set out to prove that.

TBHQ, Instant Noodles and Digestion Disaster

Dr. Kuo, a gastrointestinal specialist, conducted an experiment with a time lapse video inside the stomach. He compared the difference in digestion of fresh ramen noodles versus preserved ramen noodles (aka. instant noodles). After just two hours of digestion, the results were staggering.

Thanks to the “smart pill,” a camera the size of a multi-vitamin, Dr. Kuo performed his experiment, and showed what happens in the gut of someone who ate a package of instant noodles versus someone who ate those fresh.

“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 at the beginning of the video.

To control for individuals who might just have a poor time digesting food, he also had those who ate instant noodles to eat fresh, homemade ramen noodles on a different day.

After watching the video above, you’ll notice a striking difference between the 20 minute mark and 2 hour mark.

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

With hard-to-digest food products floating around in our gastrointestinal tract, our bodies have a harder time absorbing nutrients, and could interfere with proper elimination of preservatives in the intestinal tract (by having them remain longer in the stomach cavity).

What Is TBHQ?

This synthetic preservative is a form of butane, and has been linked to a variety of health issues. In processed foods, it is sprayed on the food, or on its packaging to prevent discolouration and changes to flavour and odour. Other products like perfumes, varnishes, lacquers and cosmetics contain TBHQ to maintain stability.

TBHQ essentially extends the storage life of foods (that shouldn’t normally last past a certain date). While small amounts of this chemical may not kill you, or even make you feel immediately sick, it can have a long term effect on your health. Eating foods with TBHQ in them every day can lead to things like weakening of the organs and contributing to the onset of cancers and tumours.

According to the FDA (1), TBHQ must not exceed 0.02 percent of its oil and fat content. Eating up to a gram of TBHQ may cause a toxic reaction like nausea, vomiting and suffocation. Eating more than 5 grams could cause death.

A number of studies have shown that prolonged exposure to TBHQ may be carcinogenic, especially when it comes to tumours of the stomach (2, 3).

People have reported body rashes, swollen lymph nodes, anxiety, night terrors, and asthma after consuming TBHQ. Ingestion of a single gram (one thirtieth of an ounce) has caused nausea, vomiting, anaphylactic shock, diarrhea, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), delirium, a sense of suffocation and collapse.

Even though TBHQ is technically an “antioxidant,” (which makes it sound healthy) – it is still synthetically created in the lab, and is a chemical our bodies cannot recognize.

Other Products That Contain TBHQ

There are many other products that contain TBHQ – not just instant noodles.

Check out the list below for foods to steer clear of – and always read the ingredient list of whatever you’re buying. If you see TBHQ listed, I highly suggest you don’t purchase it.

– McDonalds chicken nuggets and french fries (Europe does not add TBHQ to their products)
– CHEEZ-IT Crackers by Kelloggs
– Butterfinger chocolate
– Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
– Nestlé Crunch
– Wheat Thins
– Microwave popcorn
– Pam cooking spray
– Aldi products
– Keebler Club crackers
– Keebler cookies
– Kelloggs Eggo frozen waffles and many other Kellogg products
– Taco bell beans and some taco shells
– Teddy Grahams
– Red Barron frozen pizza
– Tasty Kake
– Little Debbie
– Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts
– Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies
– Some forms of soy milk
– Crisco oil
– Some pet foods
– Many cosmetic products and baby products
– Some hair dyes, lipsticks and eyeshadows
– Wrigley’s gum
– Little Debbies nutty bars and some M&M products
– KFC beans and fried chicken

Different breads, cereals, and crackers could also contain TBHQ.

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Filed Under: Food Education, Health Tagged With: Instant noodles, processed food, ramen noodles, TBHQ

Carly Fraser

About the Author

Carly Fraser has her BSc (Hons.) Degree in Neuroscience, and is the owner and founder at Live Love Fruit. She currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a determined life mission to help inspire and motivate individuals to critically think about what they put in their bodies and to find balance through nutrition and lifestyle. She has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals to re-connect with their bodies and learn self-love through proper eating habits and natural living. She loves to do yoga, dance, and immerse herself in nature.

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Comments

  1. Melissa says

    Nov 19, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    You have on the list of foods "aldi products". What are those products?

    Reply
    • Carly Fraser says

      Nov 20, 2017 at 9:20 am

      It's a grocery brand, check it out here: https://www.aldi.us/en/grocery-home/aldi-brands/

      Reply
  2. Melissa says

    Nov 20, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    I work for aldi. I was just wondering what products in particular had it.

    Reply

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