Is fresh tomatoe soup healthy?!
Is fresh tomatoe soup healthy?
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18 hours ago
and yes they are the tomatoes we grow in the garden, so i guess that makes them that much more better!
Answers: 18 hours ago
and yes they are the tomatoes we grow in the garden, so i guess that makes them that much more better! I would say yes. Has all the good nutrition you find in the tomato. Probably much better tasting than the can too AND you can control the amount of salt. That is the only drawback to canned-the amt of sodium and preservatives..
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JMHO Yes, of course! Of Course.... Tomato soup is ABSOLUTELY healthy! Yhe fresher the tomatoes, the better. They contain nutrients that are great for your heart and also have many antioxidants. It's probably one of the healthiest things you can eat! So enjoy!!!! Campbell's makes tomato soup and other products in their Archbold, Ohio factory, the largest food plant in the world.
In the 1960s, they bought red, ripe tomatoes from local farmers they contract with. About 1970, the UFCW moved into NW Ohio and tried to unionize migrant farm laborers. Campbell's reacted by refusing to sign grower contracts with any farmer who did not harvest using mechanical pickers.
Actually, that benefitted NW Ohio. The migrant workers settled down, some of them getting regular jobs, many of them creating their own jobs by starting businesses. I was warned as a child never to go into "Little Mexico" as a child, even during mid-day, because of the knife-fights and other violence occurring there. These days, the Mexican population of NW Ohio are solid citizens, highly respected, and many are community leaders.
The tomato soup, though, didn't fare as well. When you pick by hand, you pick the ripe tomatoes, then return in a few days to pick other ripe tomatoes. When you pick mechanically, the vines are uprooted, and you end up with a few tomatoes that are dead ripe, many tomatoes that are green as the dickens.
Would you use green tomatoes in making tomato soup? Neither would I. They don't have as much taste, and they don't have as much nutrition.
Yeah, it's important to avoid the salt in canned soup - but homemade soup can be *so* much better than canned soup, because you're using tastier, more-nutritious ingredients. Absolutely. As with everything else, you need to cook it in a healthy way in order for it to be healthy. It all depends on what you put in it and what special health concerns you might have, but in general, yes.
Homemade tomato soup will contain plenty of vitamins and antioxidants, and will usually be low calorie. As long as you don't add teaspoonfuls of salt, it will have much less salt than the canned variety. The only people who need to avoid tomatoes are those with certain kinds of arthritis, who find that consuming plants from the nightshade family (of which tomatoes are a member) aggravates their symptoms.
