Miracle Noodle Blog

How Sugar Weakens Your Immune System
Want to avoid getting sick? In addition to washing your hands frequently and staying warm (mom was right ... bring a sweater; viruses thrive in cold weather) perhaps the best way to prevent illness is to avoid eating excess sugar. Sugar weakens the immune system. After you drink a regular soda or eat a piece of cake, or anything else that is loaded with added sugar, your cells, much like your body at large, undergo a sort of sugar lethargy. This effect can last for several hours during which time... Read more...
Are You Sure You're Cooking Miracle Noodles the Right Way?
Whether or not you're new to Miracle Noodles or have been cooking with them for quite a while now, we want to make sure you're preparing the noodles in the healthiest and tastiest way possible.   So to explain the very quick process, we made a video for you. Most people know the first, important step of preparing Miracle Noodles, which is cutting the bag of noodles open--use scissors; don’t strain trying to rip it open with your hands!--and rinsing them in a strainer to neutralize the natural aroma. The... Read more...
Is Whole Grain Pasta Better for Weight Loss
Registered Dietician, Tanya Zuckerbrot's successful diet book, the Miracle Carb Diet, promises that you can lose weight without the hunger. We, on the Miracle Noodle Team, like the sound of that. If you do want to try a diet, avoid those that irresponsibly and dangerously severely limit calorie intake.   Ignore fad diets that have you drink only liquid for several days, if not weeks. Despite what tabloid pictures you've seen of celebrities who have gotten skinny on these diets, what do you think is going to happen as soon... Read more...
Can Gluten Lead to an Earlier Death?
The idea for a 2009 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was conceived, says the researchers, because “studies of mortality in celiac disease have not taken small-intestinal pathology into account.” In other words, prior to this study, no researchers ever determined if the cause of death of people with celiac disease (1% of the U.S. population who have a critical autoimmune response to gluten) died prematurely because of inflammation in the gut or heart disease, also caused by inflammation. The study was fairly large, with over... Read more...
Cooking a Healthier Spaghetti: Organic Shirataki Spaghetti
What’s your favorite comfort food? If you survey 10 people and ask them what’s their favorite food to eat after a long, frustrating day of work, you’ll get a sizable majority voting for spaghetti. Spaghetti, like other comfort foods such as pizza or doughnuts, elicits a serotonin, the feel-good neurotransmitter chemical released in the brain that elevates our mood after we eat something satisfying. Whether we have it with a homemade marinara sauce or a garlic-olive oil blend, spaghetti is indeed fun to eat and often brings the family closer... Read more...
What's the most popular Miracle Noodle recipe?
Of all the dozens of recipes that have been cooked with love and documented on our recipe page--both Miracle Noodle’s own and those supplied by our loyal customers--which low-calorie shirataki pasta creation do you think is most popular? Fettucini Chicken Alfredo?  Maybe…. Pad Thai? Perhaps…. Ricotta & Sun-Dried Tomatoes? Drool. Yum. Definitely a strong contender…. Mac ‘n’ Cheese …… Hungry yet? And the winner is …. Truth be told, all the above are in the running for “Most Popular Miracle Noodle Recipe of All Time.” But if we had to... Read more...
Is Self-Monitoring Worth it For Improving Diabetes?
  There are over 26 million Americans who have diabetes. You’d think in this technological age, with an app for everything under the sun, it would be easy for diabetics to manage their blood sugar and insulin levels. But this often is not the case. Although people with diabetes have been using self-monitoring tools for several decades now, and were arguably the first collective of those with a chronic health condition to self-monitor, pricking your fingertip is still a pain in the … finger. The technology to make it easy... Read more...
The Healthy Cook's Conundrum: To Salt or Not to Salt?
Is Salt Healthy to Use in Cooking? If you’re a salaried employee, would you want to get paid in salt instead of money? Probably not. But millennia ago, that’s what you may have been compensated with for your goods or services. Salt and gold were the most precious commodities. Gold, of course, is still considered precious. And in the kitchen, so, too is salt. But is salt healthy? The short answer: it depends. What kind of salt are you using? Before you answer that question, let’s look at a few... Read more...
Salmon Stir Fry with Miracle Noodles: The perfectly healthy, 10-minute meal
  The boss needed you to stay late at work. You’re back home. Exhausted. Your 2 kids need sustenance; they are getting irritable. Though you’d rather just go to sleep, you’ve got to “Mom Up” and whip something up healthy and fast. Here’s one of the healthiest meals you can make in about 10 minutes: Get a couple thawed wild salmon fillets. Preheat oven to 425. Brush salmon with olive oil and garlic. Add a few sprinkles of healthy salt. Dress with crushed almonds. In separate frying pan, on low-medium... Read more...
What does it mean when a label says "gluten-free"?
  The 4+ multi-billion dollar gluten-free industry is growing by leaps and bounds, gluten free chip by gluten free chip. It's expected to crack $6 billion within a couple years. Over two-thirds of the U.S. population purchased at least one gluten-free item in 2012. That would be awesome if that product was Miracle Noodle because shirataki noodles are beneficial for health. But what about the myriad other gluten-free products that have seemingly sprouted (no pun intended, though some healthy gluten-free products are sprouted, such as healthy bread) overnight into every... Read more...
Can Intermittent Fasting Improve Diabetes?
Fasting, unless you're a religious person and doing it for a holiday, seems like an extreme thing to do.   After all, to properly function in life, even if you are overweight and have diabetes, you need calories to help you concentrate at work, walk down the street, pick up kids (both physically and in a car), and lots of other everyday functions.    But "light" fasting or fasting at irregular intervals ('intermittent') can help with Type 2 Diabetes. Numerous studies support this method of fasting.    Here's the basic... Read more...
Is it Worth it To Count Carbs Every Day?
Do you know how many grams of carbohydrates a tortilla has?  How about a serving of rice. And how much is a serving? Is it one-half cup, one-third? If you have three-quarters of a cup, how many grams of carbohydrates is that? (If you eat Miracle Rice, it's easy to know how many grams of carbohydrates per serving: 0. Zero. None. Nil.) How many grams of carbs does a cup of beans have? Do all beans have the same amount of carbohydrates or do Pinto beans have more than Navy?  And... Read more...