Which is healthier, dried noodles or instant noodles? Why?

Many people know that you can't eat more instant noodles, and noodles are almost a necessary food for every family. Simple and healthy, easy to store, cheap, and does not require much cooking skills, but you should pay attention to buying noodles.

Everyone knows that instant noodles have high salt content, but I didn't expect that there is also salt hidden in noodles. When buying noodles, besides the production date and shelf life, the sodium content is also very important. Some noodles are high in sodium. 100g noodles, 1200mg sodium is almost 3g salt (400mg sodium = 1g salt). You should know that adult edible salt is not recommended to exceed 6 grams per day, and if you eat such a serving without any seasoning, you can use the salt for half a day. In addition, when you cook noodles, the amount of salt added to a meal such as salt and soy sauce is relatively high, and the amount of salt added up to three meals a day will far exceed the recommended intake.

So why do most noodles have salt? Adding salt is the cheapest and easiest way to thicken noodles and make them difficult to cook. Salt can tighten gluten, increase its elongation and viscoelasticity, thus reducing the breakage rate in the production process. Adding salt can also accelerate the water absorption rate of flour, promote the maturity of dough, and make the drying conditions of noodles easier to control during drying; In addition, salt has the functions of seasoning and antisepsis.

There are more and more varieties of dried noodles on the market now, so you should pay attention to these "fancy" dried noodles when buying.

1. Egg vermicelli

Nowadays, low-temperature dried noodles on the market like to be sold with the gimmick of egg dried noodles, but are there really eggs in the dried noodles? Many people will find it impossible. Even if there are eggs in dried noodles, the content of eggs is quite low, so every time I make dried noodles, I still put an egg in it.

2. Vegetable noodles

Various vegetable noodles, such as spinach noodles, can be added with spinach powder, and carrot noodles can be added with carrot powder. These vegetable powders will lose nutrients during processing, and the actual amount of vegetable powder added to vegetable noodles is limited. Even without salt, if you want to eat vegetable noodles to supplement vitamins, you'd better add vegetables.