Miso soup contains several beneficial vitamins, minerals, and components that may improve your gut and heart health and may lower your risk of cancer. If you are on a low-salt diet, read the label on packaged miso soup to choose one that's low in sodium.

Tonkotsu has a delicious umami flavor, but it also has many health advantages over other bone broths. Well, rich, hearty, delectable ramen soup doesn't seem particularly healthy, does it? However, broth made from pork and chicken bones is actually very beneficial for your health.

Ramen is not typically considered a "healthy cuisine" in Japanese restaurants for several reasons, including the quantity of white flour-based noodles it includes per serving, making it extremely starchy and detrimental to blood sugar control.

Salt ramen broths are believed to be the most traditional of the four ramen stocks. It is a light, clear broth (generally a pale yellow or brown in colour) made by boiling chicken bones, pork bones, vegetables, fish, and/or seaweed in water until the flavours diffuse, and then seasoning with plenty of salt.