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Amy’s, Campbell’s, Healthy Choice, Progresso; how many of these canned soup brands do you have lining your kitchen pantry?

During the winter months we usually turn to soup in order to keep us from catching a chill. While it’s best to make your own soup from scratch, no one seems to have enough time to slave over the oven for hours on end in order to make the most flavor-rich stew.

Enter canned soup. Campbell’s, and the rest of the soupy gang are wintertime staples but are they really that healthy?

Here is a rundown of some popular canned soups:

Amy’s Organic Lentil Vegetable Soup: 160 calories (1 cup), 4 grams of fat, 680 mg of sodium, 8 grams of fiber & 7 grams of protein

Not one of the ingredients on the label is processed making it a hearty and healthy soup to help your reach spring with a smile on your face. Be sure to only indulge in the one cup serving size though because if you slurp down the entire can, you will have gulped down far more sodium than you need in a day.

Progresso High Fiber Three-Bean Chili with Beef: 140 calories (1 cup), 4 grams of fat, 480 mg of sodium, 7 grams of fiber & 8 grams of protein

The stats on this hearty meal aren’t too shabby. Unfortunately if you take a closer look at the ingredients label you will find sugar, modified food starch, hydrolyzed soy protein and some other ingredients that you thought you only had to deal with in science class. It’s best to avoid products with these added ingredients.

Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup: 120 calories (1 cup), 4 grams of fat, 1,780 mg of sodium, 1 gram of fiber & 3 grams of protein.

Ah yes, this soup is most likely in everyone’s pantry, whether they know how it got there or not. Sadly, it’s lacking in the nutrition. It may be low calorie but it’s severely lacking in the fiber and protein department, which means that if you eat this soup by itself, you will be hungry within the hour and need something else (enter the warm cinnamon buns). It would be smart to pair this soup with an ample protein source and add more vegetables to the mix but with the sodium levels so high and ingredients such as MSG, mechanically separated chicken, cornstarch and modified food starch rounding out the ingredients list, you would be better off leaving this canned soup on the grocery shelf, or donating the one you currently have.

Wolfgang Puck Organic Thick, Hardy Vegetable Soup: 130 calories (1 cup), 4 grams of fat, 850 mg of sodium, 3 grams of fiber & 2 grams of protein.

Wolfgang Puck sure knows how to make a tasty soup, if he didn’t, he certainly wouldn’t be as successful as he currently is. Too bad he isn’t very successful at making this soup healthier. There is not enough fiber or protein to justify this soup as a full meal, yet the sodium levels do just that. And while this may be an organic soup, the ingredients label has a laundry list of ingredients that would make anyone’s head spin. Autolyzed yeast paste and maltodextrin anyone?

Healthy Choice Italian Style Wedding Soup: 120 calories (1 cup), 2.5 grams of fat, 430 mg of sodium, 3 grams of fiber & 9 grams of protein.

High-five to the “lower” in sodium and higher in protein soup of the bunch. Wait, that high-five has to be retracted because the ingredients label is not as “warm and toasty” as the nutrition facts depicts. The most common word on the ingredients list is hydrolyzed, or in other words processed and other ingredients include sugar, white flour and… TRANS FATTY ACIDS! Step away from this soup.

Canned soup, regardless of the variety is all pretty similar. They all contain a lot of ingredients in order to keep them shelf stable. Your best bet is to go with the Amy’s brand because all of the soups boast impeccable nutrition labels (minus the sodium content) and ingredients lists.

Of course, the best option is to make your own soup. While you may think it is time consuming, making soup is quite possibly one of the easiest meals you can whip up, even after a long day at work.

Original post can be found at: Examiner.com

Have you ever heard of the Dash Diet?

Probably not, right?

Perhaps you should look into it if you’re struggling with your weight or are just trying to find a way to eat healthier because it has been ranked the number one diet in America by U.S. News.

The Dash Diet received 4.8 stars out of 5 by a panel of 22 experts in nutrition and diet.

While you might be wondering what on earth this diet entails, and no it doesn’t have you dash to the kitchen or a restaurant at every meal (to burn extra calories), what DASH really stands for is, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.

Hypertension is a term used to described high blood pressure. People with hypertension are at a high risk for kidney disease, heart failure, stroke and vision problems.  Eating a diet filled with vegetables, whole grains and fruits along with some lean proteins and healthy fats helps achieve a lower blood pressure reading thus reducing your chances for such complications.