The healthiest new soups
Soup’s reputation as a diet-friendly food isn’t entirely deserved: Some versions are loaded with fat and salt. A cup of cream of onion, for example, contains 9 grams of fat and more than 1,000 milligrams of sodium–that’s over a third of what you should get all day. Instead choose soups without cream or butter, and with fewer than 600 milligrams of sodium per serving, advises Molly Kimball, R.D., a nutritionist at Ochsner Health Systems’ Elmwood Fitness Center in New Orleans. Here, five tasty good-for-you picks.
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