With pandemic-era inflation continuing its squeeze on grocery prices, we're all rethinking our go-to brands and the reasons why we choose the products we do. And if Campbell's is on your list of solid brand choices for soup, for the most part, it's earned it. But if you need a can of vegetable soup, you might want to skip the red-and-white can.
Campbell's Vegetable Soup placed poorly in our ranked taste test of 11 vegetable soup brands . According to the tester, it pretty much exemplified almost everything that can go wrong with a canned soup. There were plenty of vegetables, and it didn't receive any negative points its veggies' texture, but the flavor was primarily that of potato and salt.
The broth is supposed to be a beefy, tomato-flavored liquid, but it's somehow overwhelmed by the potatoes. And for those who mind, this is a condensed soup, meaning you have to add water to create the flavorless broth (which actually explains a few things). Frankly, you can do better.
If you want something that tastes homemade (because it is), why not try our recipe for All the Veggies vegetable soup ? Better alternatives to Campbell's vegetable soup If you're committed to canned soup, the three top soups in our ranking were Healthy Choice's Country Vegetable, Trader Joe's Garden Vegetable, and German brand Deutsche Küche's Fall Harvest Vegetable Soup (available at Aldi). Any of these three would be a better alternative, and they range from around the same price point as Campbell's to a.