Instant noodles

Yenzo has checked 10 products in this group, from Acecook, Paldo, Samyang and 2 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “mì ăn liền”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — all 10 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 5 are rated “Sometimes” and 5 “Moderate”. Across these 10 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is salt (10 of 10 products), followed by ultra-processing (10) and energy density (9). The ratings compare instant noodles with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.