Kompas.com – Instant noodles are a favorite food of many people because it is practical and delicious. However, there is an assumption that the cooking water contains harmful substances and needs to be removed.
Some people choose to replace cooking water with hot water before consuming it. Is it true that this method is healthier, or even eliminating existing nutrients?
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Reported from Kompas.com (12/17/2024), instant boiled water is actually safe for consumption. There is no candle content in instant noodles, as often misunderstood.
According to books Instant noodles: myths, facts, and potential (2016) by FG Winarno, boiled water actually contains dissolved nutrition during the heating process.
Minerals and vitamins from noodles move into cooking water, so that it can reduce it can reduce the nutritional content.
Eat noodles with rice.What happens if the cooking water is removed?
Dispose of cooking water means reducing the taste and content of instant noodles.
Noodles consumed with new hot water can taste more bland even though seasoning has been added.
In addition, instant boiled water has gone through a fairly high heating process.
This makes bacteria and harmful substances that may be in the raw material have been reduced or completely lost.
The opinion of nutritionists about instant noodle boiled water
Doctor and nutritionist Tan Shot Yen said that the assumption of dangerous instant boiled water is misleading.
If the cooking water is considered dangerous, then the noodles should also be dangerous for consumption.
According to him, all instant noodle products listed in BPOM have passed strict safety and hygiene standards.
Therefore, instant noodles and boiled water do not need to be worried during consumption in reasonable amounts.
Fried noodle illustration.The benefits of instant noodle boiled water if not consumed
If you don’t want to consume it, instant boiled water still has other benefits. For example, used to soak beans to make it soft faster or clean cutlery.
In addition, instant boiled water can be used as hair care to be more shiny or soaking foot to relieve pain after a day of activities. So, don’t just throw it away.
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