When eating chicken noodle soup at restaurants, she says take caution and consider that one popular chain restaurant’s cup of “Low-Fat Chicken Noodle Soup” has 930 milligrams of salt while their bowl has 1,400 milligrams of salt. Another chain sells a similar soup.
“Soups with broth require a lot of salt; in fact, it’s one of the few foods where you simply cannot omit the salt. This is why I was given some “wiggle room” when writing the “Biggest Loser” cookbooks, which restricted sodium intake,” the author stated.
A few reasons to choose your soup more carefully include deceptive labels, excessive sodium content, and superfluous ingredients.
Carrots, onions, and celery are frequently sautéed in butter before being added to soup stock.
“Don’t be fooled. Chicken noodle soup is often not healthy and anyone with high blood pressure needs to be particularly careful in selecting which chicken noodle soup [to eat],” Devin Alexander, celebrity chef and author of “You Can Have It!,” told Healthline.
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