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Soupendous.


If you've been waiting for a canned soup Canned soup is soup that comes packaged in a can. It can be condensed, in which case it is prepared by adding water (or sometimes milk), or it can be ready-to-eat, meaning that it only needs to be warmed. Canned soup can be prepared by heating in a pan or in the microwave.  that's lower in sodium but doesn't taste like it, have we got news for you.

Actually, Amy does. Hernew: Organic Soups are "Light in Sodium" ... but not in flavor. A cup of the delicious Lentil lentil, leguminous Old World annual plant (Lens culinaris) with whitish or pale blue flowers. Its pods contain two greenish-brown or dark-colored seeds, also called lentils, which when fully ripe are ground into meal or used in soups and stews.  Vegetable, for example, has 340 mg of sodium--half the 680 mg in Amy's regular lentil soup Noun 1. lentil soup - made of stock and lentils with onions carrots and celery
soup - liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
, according to according to
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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

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 the label.

How modest. She could have noted that a cup of Campbell's Kitchen Classics Lentil soup has 750 mg of sodium, while Progresso Vegetable Classic Lentil has 980 mg--more than a third of a day's worth.

Amy's blend of organic lentils, carrots, celery, potatoes, tomatoes, spinach, green beans, olive oil, garlic, and balsamic vinegar means no need for a heap of salt. And each cup supplies 150 calories that are packed with six grams of fiber.

Amy also offers a thick, comforting Cream of Tomato soup with only 340 mg of sodium. (Campbell's Healthy Request Tomato has 450 mg, while its regular has 730 mg; Progresso hits 990 mg.) She's also got a slightly sweet, vitamin-A-rich Butternut butternut: see walnut.
butternut

Deciduous nut-producing tree (Juglans cinerea) of the walnut family, native to eastern North America. A mature tree has gray, deeply furrowed bark.
 Squash soup (290 mg) that will heat up your insides, not your blood pressure.

Finally. Soup's on.

Amy's Kitchen: (707) 578-7188.
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Title Annotation:Right Stuff; Amy's Kitchen low sodium soups
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 1, 2005
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