Terms of Use

NoodleIndex is a reference catalogue of instant ramen sold in the United States, operated by Myko Soft Inc. It lists ingredients, nutrition and prices, and collects opinions from members. It sells nothing, ships nothing, and is not affiliated with any manufacturer or retailer named on it.

Features can change or disappear without notice.

It is offered to people in the United States. We do not currently target it at, or tailor it for, any other market.

This is the most important thing on this page, so it is not buried in a longer clause.

• Ingredients and nutrition are transcribed from packaging. Manufacturers change recipes without changing the product name, and our copy can lag behind. Read the actual package.
• Allergies. Never rely on this site to decide whether something is safe for you to eat. The package in your hand is the only authority.
• Prices are what a retailer's listing said when we last read it. They change without notice and can differ at checkout. Not every pack has a tracked price, and some tracked prices are weeks old.
• Heat and taste figures are estimates. Most come from member comparisons rather than laboratory measurement, and the site marks which is which. Treat them as a guide, not a fact.

We publish this information in good faith and correct errors when we find them, but we do not warrant that it is accurate, complete or current.

You are responsible for what happens under your account, and for keeping your password to yourself. Tell us at support@noodleindex.com if you think someone else is using it.

One account per person. Do not create accounts to make your own opinion count more than once.

You keep ownership of what you write. By posting a review you give us permission to display it on the site and to use your rating and taste answers in aggregate figures, such as a pack's average rating or its heat score.

By submitting a recipe you give us permission to show it, its photos and its video link on the site — resized or cropped to fit — and to feature it on the pages of the packs it uses. We review recipes before they appear and may decline or remove one; editing a published recipe sends it back for review. Only upload photos you took or have the right to share.

Photos you add to a review. You can attach up to four photos to a review of a pack or a store. You keep the copyright and any other rights in your photos. By adding one, you give NoodleIndex a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to store it, resize or crop it to fit, and show it with your review and — if we choose — in the photo gallery of that pack or store, credited to your nickname with a note that the photo is yours. We check photos before they appear and may decline or remove any of them. This permission ends for a photo when you remove it, delete the review, or close your account: we then take it off the review and the gallery (copies already in search-engine or browser caches may take a while to disappear). Only add photos you took yourself, and avoid photos where other people can be recognized.

Do not post:

• content you do not have the right to publish, including other people's photographs
• reviews of packs you have not actually eaten
• someone else's recipe, photos or video presented as your own, or cooking methods that are unsafe
• anything that attacks a person, or that is unlawful
• advertising, affiliate links, or reviews written on behalf of a brand
• a nickname that impersonates a person, a brand or NoodleIndex, or that is offensive

We may remove content, change a nickname, or suspend an account that breaks these rules. Reviews are opinions of the members who wrote them, not ours.

Taste Battle exists to put numbers on packs that nobody has measured. Answering carelessly or deliberately skewing a pack's score damages the data for everyone, and we may discard answers or suspend accounts that do it.

We never ask which ramen tastes better overall. We ask about one attribute at a time — which pack is spicier, sourer or chewier, and then which of the two you prefer on that attribute. If a question does not apply to the packs you are shown, use "Not sure" or skip the pair rather than guessing.

You can answer without an account. When we calculate a pack's figures, answers from signed-in members on packs they have marked as eaten count for more than other answers.

Your NoodleIndex is one point for each different pack on your Ramen I've Tried shelf and five for each store in your Places I've been list. It is self-reported: nobody checks it, and it only means something if you add packs you have actually eaten and places you have actually been. The same shelf decides how much your Taste Battle answers count, so padding it skews the data for everyone.

The leaderboard is for fun. There are no prizes, and a rank carries no rights. Ranks move as other members add packs, and we may correct, reset or remove entries — for example to stop abuse, or to hide a name that breaks the rules on what you post.

Only members who make their Ramen I've Tried shelf or Places I've been list public appear on the leaderboard, and only a public list counts toward the score shown there. Making a list public shows what is on it, its count and your rank next to your nickname, avatar and any profile details you marked public; making both private again takes you off the board — see the Privacy Policy.

• Do not scrape the catalogue in bulk or hammer the site with automated requests.
• Do not try to reach other members' private shelves, or any part of the admin area.
• Do not copy the catalogue wholesale to republish it elsewhere.

Linking to individual pages is welcome and needs no permission.

Product pages link out to retailers so you can check a price or buy. We are not a party to anything that happens on their site, and their terms govern your purchase.

We earn nothing from those links today. If we ever join an affiliate programme, we will disclose it clearly on the pages that carry the links, as the FTC requires, before the first paid link goes live.

Product names, brand names and packaging images belong to their owners. They appear here to identify the products being catalogued. No endorsement by any manufacturer or retailer is implied.

If you own a trademark or an image and want it removed, email support@noodleindex.com and we will act on it.

The site is provided as is, without warranty. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising from your reliance on the information here — including money spent on a price that had changed, or a reaction to an ingredient that the package listed and we did not.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

You can stop using the site at any time and ask us to delete your account — see the Privacy Policy. We may suspend accounts that break these terms.

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page changes when we do, and continuing to use the site means you accept the update.

Myko Soft Inc is based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The law governing these terms will be named here once the company's registration is complete — we would rather leave that gap visible than print something that turns out to be wrong.