Review: Top Ramen!!!

What college food review blog would be complete world including this most basic and stereotypical of all college cuisine? You have heard about this from your teacher, your parents, and possibly your classmates as well; everyone talks of this essential college pantry stuffers. Some talk about their days eating the stuff eagerly while others talk about it remorsefully. Today we review Maruchan Top Ramen.

Cost: There is a reason top ramen is the go-to food for college students and is universal accepted for being so. At 50 cent for 300 Calories top ramen is unbeatable; this thing is cheap and definitely bests out its competition.

Taste: The noodles are gummy and dry, and there is no complexity to the texture to state otherwise. The noodles taste like pure starch, if you notice it, because for the whole meal one cannot taste anything other than the booth. And there is good reason why the booth so overpowering, its extremely salty, with a hint of meal flavoring, otherwise its just salt. The cup packaging  advertises itself to contain vegetable, but the carrot and what I am assuming is lettuce is chomped so finely and is spread so scarcely that one can hardly taste them at all. But the kernels of corn will be a welcoming surprise, one gets a nice sweet bite once in a while that compliments the meal perfectly.

Overall the meal is starchy, salty, a hint of meat flavor-y; I think chicken booth or some so other source of flavoring, with sweet corn kernels to liven the dish. The taste is overall acceptable and one should be able eat, and accept the dish without much too much difficulty.

Longevity: As a staple item in the diet one should be able to consume top ramen for a long while without growing too sick of the meal. Not to mention that in this review I consumed shrimp flavored, but there are also beef, chicken, and beef flavored varieties and all the specialty blends of each flavor and many more flavoring that exist and can be put in a rotation to add variety to one diet. As a stand alone dish, based on taste, one could subsist on raman for a good amount of time; I have been in college for 4 years and I have not grown sick of eating ramen yet, and have stocked up on top ramen as an emergency ration.

Nutrient: In the long one can one eat reman without concerning health problems? Look at the nutritional content:


Assuming one is the average person and consumes 2000 Calories a day, at 300 calories a meal one would need to eat 6-7 top ramen cups a day to get enough calories but at 15% of one's daily intake of Calories but 30% daily intake of saturated fat and 60% daily intake of sodium, one's blood pressure will be spiking if one goes too long eating top ramen. I specifically addressed top ramen in the introduction, because it is a dish that should not be eaten regularity if one expect to live on it for long periods of time.

Conclusion: Top ramen is cheap and affordable, it tastes fine and can be eaten for a long time without one growing sick of eating it all all day. But nutrient-wise top ramen is poor and should be consumed scarcity or not at all if one wishes to maintain a standard of health. But I am not a food health blog, I am college student telling other college student what I eat regularly and am giving suggestion on what I eat, so that others can have a choice to pick from and choose that they want to eat.