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To a food manufacturer, salt is cheap, about $.10/lb. When you sub out lower sodium options (KCL, Flavor masking agents, flavors) they always cost a lot more than $.10/lb causing the price of ingredients / finished product to be higher.
Yep, and the ingredients are listed in order of weight, and there are only two tablespoons of corn syrup per can, so that just goes to show how little is actually in a can of their soup that isn't tomato puree. And they make the puree themselves, and the tomatoes they use are grown from seed they supply. When the harvest was in full swing I used to see the big trucks full of those tomatoes on the way to the Campbell's plant, just one of many across the country. The amount of tomato soup they sell is staggering.
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Not sure how long it took you to Google an organic soup that contained cane sugar, but the organic soup I use contains zero added sugar, and no paste, just whole stewed, organic tomatoes.
No conspiracy here, I just grabbed the first one that came up in the search, and since I knew the brand name I went with it.
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Nothing to argue about here. It is just a fact that they add corn syrup to their soup, and this may account for their drop in sales in recent years.
I sincerely doubt it, since the drop in soup sales is affecting the whole category. And they've probably always used a touch of corn syrup, long before HFCS was invented, just as most other brands of tomato soup add a bit of sweetener in one form or another, to offset the natural acidity of the tomatoes a little.
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Many people are also staying away from added sugars in the form of starch, and you will notice the 3rd ingredient is flour. There is a technique that food manufacturers use on labels called Splitting. Tomato paste may 1st in the list, but the combined weight of the ingredients immediately following the 1st ingredient frequently add up more than the 1st ingredient alone. Many products contain mostly additives, despite what the 1st ingredient is listed as.
But not in this case, obviously, since the second largest ingredient is only 2 TBS worth.
I have no problem with people choosing whatever the want for whatever reasons they want, but I don't like to see false information or innuendo posted about perfectly good traditional products. If you confront what is in the can, and the quantities involved, it's actually quite a clean product that's been a great accompaniment to grilled cheese sandwiches since 1897.
anything from a can tastes like crap, but its good to see they are willing to produce healthier stuff
Yes but WHY FORCE THIS GARBAGE ON EVERYONE????
I want the GOOD soup I used to have in the 80s,NOT THIS DUMBED DOWN CRAP THAT TASTES HORRIBLE!!
They should STILL MAKE THIER ORIGINAL READY TO EAT 'CREAM OF TOMATO SOUP' for people who want BETTER FLAVOUR!! (They came out with this in the 90s I think)
I made it for the first time several months ago, and ever since, when I find myself craving tomato soup, I crave this recipe, not Campbell's. I realized that the only reason I "liked" Campbell's tomato soup as an adult was because it brought back memories from my childhood.
I like Progresso's "Hearty Tomato," but it's so sweet ("less than 2% corn syrup solids"), I have to add salt. I've complained, but all I get are coupons.
It's true. It's much sweeter now. So, it is not now the flavor we grew up with.
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