Yes, another French dish for dinner. :) This one's a childhood favorite of mine. The fresh flavor of this soup is so much better than eating the condensed version out of a can! And by "better" I mean not only in terms of taste, but also in terms of nutritional value & one's overall health. :)
It's easy enough to round up the supporting evidence. To illuminate the differences, all you have to do is check the ingredients listed on a can of
Campbell's Cream of Asparagus Soup: "Water, Asparagus, Vegetable Oil (Corn, Cottonseed, Canola And/Or Soybean), Modified Good Starch, Wheat Flour, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Cream (Milk), Salt, Dried Why (Milk), Soy Protein Concentrate, Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate, Spice."
Not exactly nutritious, eh?! Note that vegetable oil is the third ingredient after water & asparagus. That's a lot of oil. Plus, vegetable oil is nowhere near as good of a choice as (extra virgin) olive oil, or even canola oil for that matter. (See my previous post entitled "
Cooking Oils: Which One is Best?! " for further background info on this topic.) Also, you'll see that Campbell's version contains cream, sugar, & MSG. Do I even need to continue? ;)
And now let's look at the nutritional info, listed below: If you total everything up, you'll see that one 10.75 oz. can of their soup contains 275 calories, 17.5 grams of fat, and 2075 mg. of sodium! Not only that, but in one serving (120 ml., or 4.3 fl. oz.), 60 out of 110 calories come from fat. That's over half (54.5%) of an entire serving of soup! Do you really want to put that much fat into your body for such a small amount of food? (I'd personally rather get more "bang for the buck" & also more evenly spread out my 25-30% RDA of fat calories. ;) )
Nutrition Facts | 
It's easy enough to round up the supporting evidence. To illuminate the differences, all you have to do is check the ingredients listed on a can of Campbell's Cream of Asparagus Soup: "Water, Asparagus, Vegetable Oil (Corn, Cottonseed, Canola And/Or Soybean), Modified Good Starch, Wheat Flour, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Cream (Milk), Salt, Dried Why (Milk), Soy Protein Concentrate, Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate, Spice."
Not exactly nutritious, eh?! Note that vegetable oil is the third ingredient after water & asparagus. That's a lot of oil. Plus, vegetable oil is nowhere near as good of a choice as (extra virgin) olive oil, or even canola oil for that matter. (See my previous post entitled " Cooking Oils: Which One is Best?! " for further background info on this topic.) Also, you'll see that Campbell's version contains cream, sugar, & MSG. Do I even need to continue? ;)
And now let's look at the nutritional info, listed below: If you total everything up, you'll see that one 10.75 oz. can of their soup contains 275 calories, 17.5 grams of fat, and 2075 mg. of sodium! Not only that, but in one serving (120 ml., or 4.3 fl. oz.), 60 out of 110 calories come from fat. That's over half (54.5%) of an entire serving of soup! Do you really want to put that much fat into your body for such a small amount of food? (I'd personally rather get more "bang for the buck" & also more evenly spread out my 25-30% RDA of fat calories. ;) )