Organic Minestrone Soup Review: Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup

Despite it being summertime and the days being rather warm, I have been having soup for my lunches. I hate to admit it, but one of the reasons that I have been having soups is because they are very easy to heat up. On a couple days I have even eaten them cold just to save time, of course this only works if it is a kind of soup that you can still enjoy cold. To allow myself some good ingredients and nutrition I have been getting only organic soups. That part is something that I feel very good about. One of the most recent soups that I tried was the Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup.

When I found this soup it was on sale, as well as many others from the company. So as I looked over the various varieties of soups I was looking for ones that sounded good and that were going to be vegetarian. This took a little bit of time because each can that I picked up I had to read the ingredients of. Of course I saved myself some time and didn't pick anything up that had chicken or beef in the title. I was in luck though because the Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup ingredients were all vegetarian. They were filtered water, organic celery, organic carrots, organic tomatoes, organic onions, organic peas, pasta made of organic semolina and egg whites, organic tomato paste, corn starch, organic red kidney beans, organic small white beans, organic green beans, organic spinach, organic evaporated cane juice, onion powder, garlic powder, concentrated lemon juice, white pepper, oregano, organic basil, bay leaves, cayenne pepper and organic sage. It would be some time before I got around to eating this Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup.

Like so many other canned goods, when I got home and put away all of my groceries I wasn't concerned about getting to eating some of the foods that I bought that day that were in no hurry to expire, I momentarily forgot about the Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup. When the time did finally come to eat the soup I had forgotten about it and was looking forward to having a good vegetable soup, at least I hoped that it would be good. I was in luck because the soup was very good. Of course I don't think that any canned soup is going to compare to a homemade soup I still thought that this was a nice soup for being canned. I didn't think that the vegetables were not too mushy and overall the broth had a very nice flavor. I was glad that I found this soup among the ones that were part of the sale and I was even gladder that I decided to get it. As I enjoyed a second bowl of it I looked over the nutrition facts eager to see what nutrition the can was giving me.

Lucky for me there was some really good nutrition found in the Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup. Maybe not as much as you find in a fresh soup but I was happy to get what nutrition it did have. The can of soup contained about two cup worth of minestrone soup. So this was about two one cup servings. In each serving of the soup there was one hundred calories with twenty calories from fat. There was no salted added to this soup and so it only had seventy milligrams of sodium per serving. In addition each cup of soup contained seventeen grams of carbohydrates, five grams of sugars, four grams of protein and three grams of fiber. In the minerals and vitamins portion of the nutrition facts there it listed seventy percent for vitamin A, fifteen percent for vitamin C, eight percent for iron and half that calcium for a serving of the minestrone soup. All in all I thought that the nutrition facts looked pretty good.

The sale for the Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup was three cans for five dollars. This is a pretty good price for organic canned soup so I didn't mind paying it. I think that if I saw this sale again I would be tempted to get this soup again. I would recommend for anyone else to give it a try. Overall it was a very nice soup. It offered some good nutrition, had some really nice organic ingredients and of course was a very simple lunch. I thought that I needed either two cans to get completely full for lunch or just one can with some bread or toast on the side. How often I get the Health Valley Organic Minestrone Soup depends a lot on how often I find it on sale, how good the sale is and how much longer I continue to have soup for my lunch, but I think that I will be getting it again for sure.