YET another trend has been outed as having potentially dire health consequences.
Eating ramen dishes - a Japanese-style noodle soup that is all the rage on TikTok - more than once a week can increase risk of an early death, scientists have discovered.
A study published in the Journal of Nutrition, Health and Ageing found that people who ate ramen more than three times a week and drank alcohol had a three times higher risk of death when compared to people who ate ramen less frequently.
You wouldn't think that the traditional Japanese dish, which combines pork-based broth with slices of meat, seaweed and vegetables, is unhealthy at face value, but according to researchers, the excess salt in the broth is the culprit.
"Frequent intake of ramen noodles might be associated with mortality risk in men, aged less than 70 years and those who consumed over 50 percent of the noodle soup and alcohol," the scientists wrote.
"Ramen noodles and their soup contain high salt content; therefore, frequent intake can lead to high amounts of sodium, which may increase the risk of salt-related diseases, such as stroke and gastric cancer."
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