You don't have to eat chemicals to have good ramen. Ramen is just flour,water and salt in a soup, so you can buy good stuff which is actually good for you. There are ramen stalls in every Japanese city, dealing with the late-night drunken crowd and quite often me and my mates go to one particular stall and have ramen with gyoza. The stock they use is excellent. Tho I can't claim to've analysed it, it tastes very natural and doesn't have that MSG tinge to it. But if you buy good vegetable stock and spice it up with herbs ands ginger and stuff, you're in noodle heaven.