2. Maggi Mee - Excessive Na compounds inside

For those Bio intolerant people (i.e. AFP syndrome according to Felix), you may skip this brief intro on the properties of Sodium in the body:

Sodium plays a part in affecting your blood pressure. This is because sodium retains water, and the more water in your bloodstream (i.e. higher volume of water), the higher your blood pressure due to the osmotic pressure of water. High blood pressure caused by excess sodium can actually cause blood not to be filtered thoroughly of waste in the kidney, and the kidney has to overwork, and eventually causing kidney failure if the problem develops, and this also complicates high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a serious disease nowadays, probably due to the fact that there are no specific physical symptoms, so a person may be suffering from high blood pressure and not know about it. High blood pressure is defined as blood pressure above 140/90 mm Hg. FDA suggests that the daily intake of sodium should not exceed 2400mg.

So tonight I wasn't really feeling hungry, but yet I needed to eat something to fill my stomach, so I opened my side cupboard and fished out a packet of curry Maggi Mee. While waiting for the water to boil, I decided to check out the sodium content in the nutrition table. The result: 1870mg. (Beef flavour has 1780mg, Indo Mee 830mg). Anyway, that little packet of curry Maggi Mee provides 77.92% of your maximum daily sodium intake. Some of us take two packets because one isn't really filling. So that means you consume 155.8% of your maximum recommended daily intake from those two packets, considering you eat pure bland food for your breakfast / lunch / dinner. This concludes that, one, Maggi Mee will pwn your life if taken consistently. Two, Indo Mee is better than Maggi Mee (2 packets vs 1. Not filling? Drink pure water that you use if you make Maggi Mee soup). Probably there should be a campaign that helps raise awareness that Maggi Mee is comparable to cigarettes or something, but the support from the citizens won't be very promising...