Published: 8:45am, 21 Aug, 2017 Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018
China's booming middle classes are moving away from instant noodles and towards a healthier diet. This coincides with the rise of food deliveries via smartphone apps which provide quick, easy and inexpensive food of a higher quality. Demand for instant noodles fell 17% between 2013 and 2016, according to the World Instant Noodles Association. Uni-President, which provides over a fifth of China's instant noodles, reported a 27% decline in net profit during H1 2017.