Vegetable Soup Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide (USDA)

Vegetable soup is a hearty classic and is a perfect meal for cold days. There are positive and negative nutritional facts to consider when adding vegetable soup to your daily diet.

Serving

• This guide focuses on two nutritional guides from the USDA. The first is 1/2 cup serving of Campbell's condensed vegetable soup. The second is a generic USDA definition for a vegetable soup with a 1-cup serving.

Fat

• One benefit of vegetable soup is the low fat content. While the USDA definition has 4 g per serving, Campbell's has only 1 g of fat per serving.

Sodium

• Sodium is a big issue with canned soups. One serving of Campbell's vegetable soup has 890 mg of sodium, or 37 percent of your daily value.

Protein

• Campbell's version of vegetable soup has 4 g of protein, which is on par with the USDA's generic soup. This is 8 percent of your daily value of protein.

Vitamins

• The USDA's definition of generic vegetable soup has 120 percent of your daily value of vitamin A and 25 percent of your daily vitamin K per serving. Campbell's has 60 percent of vitamin A per serving.