CANNED PROGRESSO SOUPS — Far From Homemade™

Information updated January 2024

General Mills Progresso Canned Soups are Far From Homemade with numerous ingredients Not In Kitchen™ when making homemade soups. Many Progresso Soups are banned at Whole Foods for containing ingredients which Whole Foods cites as “Unacceptable in food”. (Source for Progresso ingredients: General Mills Progresso Web site 1/24; Source for banned ingredients: Amazon Whole Foods Web site 1/24)

Progresso Broccoli Cheese Soup contains numerous ingredients we would never use at home to make Broccoli Cheese Soup such as DATEM, Sugar, Soybean Oil, Soy Protein Concentrate, Citric Acid (an FDA-recognized Preservative), Maltodextrin, Added Flavor + Color, Yeast Extract, Dried Nonfat Milk, Whey + Dried Whey and Carob Bean Gum. (Source: U.S. FDA 2024)

DATEM is an ‘Acronym Ingredient’ banned at Whole Foods which stands for Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Ester of Monoglycerides and Diglycerides.

We are paying for all of these ingredients which don’t need to be included.

It would not necessarily be a big deal if we ate these types of ingredients once in a while, but it is the cumulative effect of consuming these types of ingredients multiple times a day, week after week, year after year.

BROCCOLI CHEESE SOUP COMPARISON: Here’s a comparison of Campbell’s vs. Progresso. They’re both banned at Whole Foods and are both Far From Homemade. (Source: Campbell’s Web site 1/24)

BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP COMPARSION: Here’s a comparison of Progresso to Closest To Homemade® Amy’s Butternut Squash Soup. This Progresso Soup — below left — has five ingredients Not In Kitchen when making homemade Butternut Squash Soup including Sugar, Corn Starch, Modified Food Starch, commercial Natural Flavor and Beta Carotene for Color. Amy’s — below right — has no Added Flavors or Colors, no Modified Food Starch, no Corn Starch and no Added Color. All Amy’s soups are in Non-BPA lined cans which is healthier for all living things and our earth and oceans. (Source: Amy’s Web site 1/24)

GENERAL MILLS PROGRESSO LOADED POTATO WITH BACON SOUP HAS THREE INGREDIENTS BANNED AT WHOLE FOODS: This Progresso Soup contains multiple ingredients Not In Kitchen including four banned at Whole Foods >> Sodium Nitrite, Smoke Flavoring, DATEM and Sorbic Acid.

Here’s a snapshot of the ingredients Not In Kitchen in several Progresso Soups, three of which are banned at Whole Foods for 1-5 ingredients.

PROGRESSO CREAMY MUSHROOM SOUP IS LESS THAN 2% CREAM. The first four ingredients for this General Mills soup are Water, Portabella Mushrooms, Soybean Oil and Modified Food Starch.

Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup is Far From Homemade with numerous ingredients we would never use at home to make Chicken Noodle Soup including Sugar, Hydrolyzed Corn Protein, Maltodextrin, Flavoring, Coloring, Potassium Chloride, Modified Food Starch, Soy Protein Isolate, Chicken Fat as a separate ingredient and Dried Egg White.

INGREDIENTS ARE ALWAYS LISTED IN DESCENDING ORDER OF AMOUNT: Here’s a look at the ingredients in a can of Progresso Tomato Basil: Water is the #1 ingredient followed by Tomato Paste and then Corn Syrup Solids, Corn Starch, Sugar, Soybean Oil and Modified Food Starch.

HEAT & EAT TOMATO SOUP COMPARISON >> Progresso Tomato Basil is Far From Homemade vs. Amy’s which is Closest To Homemade. (Source: Amy’s Web site 1/24)

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