Is this surprising (and delicious) food the secret to living past 100?

There are countless ways people try to live longer—eating healthy food, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep, for example. There are also several more quirky things that older people have credited with their longevity, such as the 108-year-old woman who said the key to her long life was having greyhounds instead of kids.

A different 108-year-old woman suggested that her love of champagne had kept her alive so long, which, I must say, is music to my ears. And, yet another centenarian - 110-year-old Agnes Fenton - said that she had drunk three beers and a shot of whisky every day for 70 years and thought that was part of why she was still kicking it at more than a century old.

However, another 110-year-old woman has linked her longevity to something less likely to cause liver failure in most of us, and it's great news for anyone who loves carbs.

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Yoshiko Miwa, from California, is the oldest living Japanese American and says that she eats noodles every day, telling TODAY.com, “When I was in the children’s home, the cook used to make noodles and I used to love them. Today, I like spaghetti, udon, ramen, soba and any other kind of noodles.”

While it sounds absolutely delicious (and very close to my current diet), it's very different from what researcher Dan Buettner—who has investigated how and why some people live longer lives—suggests that people eat to avoid the Grim Reaper for as long as possible.

Dan Buettner, who also hosts the Netflix series Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, previously told TODAY.com that the key to a longer life is to eat a diet that is predominantly whole-food and plant-based, with meat served only a few times a month.

Eight hours of sleep per day and drinking plenty of water also featured on Buettner's list of factors he had found people in the 100+ club had in common, although he also noted that "Well over 80% of people making it into their 90s and 100s who are still healthy drink every day of their lives."

As for Yoshiko Miwa, she said that a few other things, such as her faith and her family (she has three sons, 10 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild), contributed to her long and mostly happy life.

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She also revealed that she enjoyed an assortment of impressive hobbies such as reading, flower arranging, sewing and furniture reupholstery, but that her favourite hobby these days was sleeping. Girl, SAME.

So, while the correlation between her age and her love of noodles may just be a fluke, I'll be throwing a few packets of Maggi Two-Minute Noodles in my trolley next time I do a shop, just in case.

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