Ramen noodles
Ramen noodles by Maruchan has 8 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is E, and 1 of its ingredient carries a low safety rating.
- Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 4
Plant-based foods and beverages / Plant-based foods / Cereals and potatoes / Cereals and their products / Pastas / Noodles
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 8 of 8 ingredients tracked for Ramen noodles have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Ramen noodles sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
- Monosodium Glutamate - Safety score: 2/5
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.
Full Ingredients List
Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), vegetable oil (contains one or more of the following: canola, cottonseed, palm) preserved by tbhq, salt, dehydrated blend of cheese (granular and blue [milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes], whey), contains less than 2% of: sugar, monosodium glutamate, powdered cream substitute (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, corn syrup solids, sodium caseinate [milk derivative]), food starch-modified, maltodextrin, powdered cooked chicken, hydrolyzed corn, wheat and soy protein, dehydrated vegetables (onion, garlic, parsley), yeast extract, natural and artificial flavors, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), xanthan gum, yellow color # 6, yellow color # 5, potassium carbonate, sodium (mono, hexameta, and/or tripoly) phosphate, soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt), sodium carbonate, spices, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, chicken broth, soya lecithin, turmeric.
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Ramen noodles: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 8.
Product Details
- Brand
- Maruchan
- Barcode
- 0004178900166
- Nutri-Score
- Grade E
- NOVA Group
- 4 — Ultra-processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Ramen noodles's safety score compare to other products?
Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Ramen noodles's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Ramen noodles's 4/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 4/5 average places Ramen noodles in the Low Risk tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.