Following up on the previous post on the egg and banana diet and replace it with ramen – a food that is more in-line with the a graduate student’s diet - the nutrition of ramen is:
| Calories | Total Fat (%) | Saturated Fat (%) | Cholesterol (%) | Sodium (%) | Carbohydrate (%) | Dietary fiber (%) | Protein (g) | |
| 1 ramen | 380 | 22 | 36 | 0 | 36* | 18 | 10 | 5 |
| 6 ramen | 2280 | 132 | 216 | 0 | 216* | 108 | 60 | 30 |
For a package of ramen, a graduate student can get it for about $0.20 a package from the grocery store, and probably cheaper if you eat enough ramen to justify a Costco membership.
Note for sodium I assume the consumer only use half of the seasoning packet (*), which quite frankly is salty enough even for me. And the sodium level would be even lower if one does not drink the so-called broth. The cost of this diet is $1.20, versus the egg and banana diet of $2.07 a day.