Thursday, March 21, 2013

Soups: Excellent Source of Dietary Nutrition


Some of the simplest, most nutritious sources of nutrition available for our diets are soups. There are many good sources for soups, but the healthiest are usually the homemade variety made from scratch or a mix requiring a broth. Even a novice cook is able to prepare a hearty, nutritious soup by throwing together a few basic ingredients like carrots, potatoes and other vegetables.

Although some vitamins can be lost during the slow cooking of vegetables, soups made from natural ingredients still provide an excellent variety of nutrients including vitamins, minerals and protein. Some vitamin loss can be minimized by adding fresh vegetables towards the end of the cooking process, bringing the soup to a boil, and cooking only until the added vegetables are barely tender.

Making your own soup allows you to control the salt content, an option you don’t have when cooking or serving the canned variety of soup or instant soup mixes which are highly processed. Some experts have described instant soup mixes as nothing more than a mix of MSG, artificial flavors, sodium, dyes and additives.

The soup mixes offered on the O’Meagher Farms website are made of all natural ingredients. Preparation simply requires the addition of broth, or other fresh ingredients. Some of the soup recipes call for the addition of certain meat items like shredded chicken or sausage, which can always be substituted for or eliminated for strict vegetarians.

O’Meagher Farms promotes healthier eating by offering a variety of tasty, all natural foods (which are plant-based) on its website, including a range of soup nutritious soup mixes. Please visit us at http://www.omeagherfarms.com.

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