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the amount of sodium in cambells soup is absolutely bonkers. even if you follow the instructions for the condensed version to the letter, and water it down by 66%.
canned soup in general is pretty wild in the US, but the campbells flagship soups (chicken noodle, tomato, etc) are wack. which usually means the other ingredients are such utility-cull quality, they would taste like styrofoam without all that salt and fat.
imo its an apocalypse/ emergency food ration for surviving exposure.
I've often thought about all the sodium that goes into our products since my dad has to watch his intake with his heart. Like when he went on a special diet of low sodium half the grocery store was cut off from him. I imagine it's going to catch up with me someday.
I've been paying closer attention to saturated fat and sodium lately, and it's wild. Even bread has extremely high sodium here.
That said, I've found a lot of things I can easily make at home instead, and I feel a lot better having homemade soups.
I love fresh, homemade soup, but Campbell's is gross. The meat looks, feels and tastes like chunks of an animal that died months ago and hasn't quite rotted yet only because of the amount of preservatives in it.
Progresso is decent. The meat seems fresher, anyway. I can eat it without wanting to vomit for days.
That reminds me, I should buy some soup ingredients.
I once tried “american style mac & cheese” and it tased like pure salt and water. And that is supposed to be the big culinary hit?
lol, i wouldn't call ezmac/velveeta mac n cheese a culinary hit exactly lol. it's just cheap and convenient, so its on the shelves and in the pantry.
its ancestral dish is a bechamel/mornay sauce based pasta that uses cheddar, so if executed with its traditional ingredients as a light roux mother sauce, its pretty badass.
but the industrial variant is cheaply powdered everything with added salt so it can sit on a shelf for years and ready to reconstitute in minutes.
At my local poverty grocery store they sell off brand Velveeta... It's labeled "cheese loaf".