Calories in soup

bluekitty2201
bluekitty2201 Posts: 24 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I had a can of soup today for lunch. There are 80 calories in each serving and 2 servings per can. I only ate the veggies and meat, but no broth... does anyone know how I would figure out the calories?

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  • cressievargo
    cressievargo Posts: 392 Member
    Why did you skip the broth? Sodium? Because the meat & veggies have been soaking in it - making them chock full o' sodium as well....

    I'd just put the whole calorie amount in and let it go.
  • BarbieAS
    BarbieAS Posts: 1,414 Member
    Broth has almost no calories. 1C of standard chicken broth has 5 calories. I would count the full portion, personally.
  • delaniecastillo
    delaniecastillo Posts: 284
    Agree with the top two. It'll knocked your sodium down but you ate the "calorie" part of it unless it is a cream-based soup which at 160 per can, it was probably fair to say it was more broth than anything else.
  • RebeccaHite
    RebeccaHite Posts: 187 Member
    I wouldn't worry about it and just claim the calories on the can with or without the broth .You are complicating it.If you go over by 20 calories isn't gonna make that much of a difference as long as you have a general idea I think you should be right where you should be.If anything your just having lower sodium by taking the juice out .
  • amandamae61288
    amandamae61288 Posts: 39 Member
    I am sure the calories in the broth aren't very high, I would count it all. Even if you did save, what 5-15 calories, honestly what is 5-15 calories in the grand scheme of things.
  • angelique_redhead
    angelique_redhead Posts: 782 Member
    Also the broth will help you fill up. I'd eat and count it next time.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    The calories are in the meat and veg...the broth is pretty much negligible...just log the whole amount.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I had a can of soup today for lunch. There are 80 calories in each serving and 2 servings per can. I only ate the veggies and meat, but no broth... does anyone know how I would figure out the calories?

    Unless the soup is cream based, the broth is going to contain very few of the calories. Not enough to worry about.
  • bluekitty2201
    bluekitty2201 Posts: 24 Member
    Ok thanks, I didn't eat the broth because for some reason it makes me gag.

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