Package soup vs homemade soup ……what is really a Healthy Choice?
A bowl of piping hot soup is one of the favourite choices to keep you warm in winter. Now a days market is flooded with a variety of ready to prepare soups.
Many a times my clients ask me whether they can have these packaged soups. Let us dig into and find out whether it is health bhi or just taste..
Firstly lets look at its ingredients on the label – corn flour, refined wheat flour (maida!), dehydrated vegetables or chicken shreds, vegetable fat, salt, sugar, glucose syrup, spices & condiments, (some varieties also contain certain vegetable powder, soy sauce powder, yeast extracts and milk in some form), as well as emulsifiers, acidity regulators, flavour enhancers, and thickeners.
Now compare it with the ingredients we all use in the homemade soups… The homemade soups contains fresh veggies or chicken, spices and condiments of your choice, salt, sugar, a little maida or whole wheat flour or corn flour or potato starch, and lots of water or veg broth or chicken broth. The list will be much shorter (than the commercial soups), but surprisingly, the taste would be yummier!
Have you ever given a thought to how much nutrition you will get from those dried vegetables? The process of dehydrating can significantly reduce vitamin A and C, as well as certain B complex vitamins. Lesser the processing done on a food, the better it is for nutritive value.
Do you think it is worth the price?
Be intelligent just don’t go by what is shown take efforts to read the label right!!!
Choose Natural