The microbial load varied with brands and the number of colony forming units per g of the product (cfu/g) was more in cold samples than in hot samples when considering both bacterial and fungal counts (Table 1 and Table 2). Also, the fungal counts were considerably lower than bacterial population in all the brands. Samples CIN and HIN had the least bacterial counts of 27.9 and 17.8×103 cfu/g for both cold and hot noodles, respectively, while CGN and HGN recorded the highest counts of 43×108 and 24.4×105 cfu/g, respectively. These show that heating the noodles significantly reduce the bacterial load. The least microbial load was found to be in the hot noodle samples in all brands while higher microbial load occurred in cold samples. The fact that there was a decrease in microbial load in all hot samples infers that the use of heat has an effect on the microbial quality in all brands as compared to that of the cold samples.