Health Benefits of Soups
There’s nothing quite like warm soup in the winter or when you’re feeling sick. Soup’s soothing qualities can relax your mind, stomach, and soul! Nutritious, great for leftovers, and easy to make, soup is the ultimate healer. With its powerful ingredients loaded with protein, vitamins, minerals, fiber, carbohydrates, and antioxidants, you can easily maintain a balanced diet. Read below to learn about the health benefits of your favorite homemade soups.
Why Soup Is Healthy for You
Recommended Vegetable Intake: Get your daily veggies in with a warm and delicious soup like Vegetarian Minestrone or Broccoli Cheddar. You can have more veggies with soup than you usually would, like beans, green veggies, and orange veggies, such as butternut squash.
Vitamins & Minerals: Soup often has a more considerable amount of vitamin A, fiber, magnesium, iron, and potassium than other meals people typically eat. Foods high in vitamin C, like bell peppers and broccoli, typically work great in soup too. Stuffed Green Pepper soup and broccoli cheddar soup are great hearty options to increase your daily vitamin intake. Soups with a lot of potatoes, like Loaded Baked Potato, can offset any sodium with high amounts of potassium.
Protein-Packed: High protein soups like Home Made Chicken & Noodle, Homemade Chicken & Dumpling, Homemade Chili, and Beef Stew can keep you full and energized all day.
Helps You Lose Weight: Soup is very filling and keeps you full in fewer calories. You can now stay full for more extended periods of time to avoid snacking and late-night meals. Before your next meal, opt for soup as an appetizer so you won’t overeat and have better portion control.
Nostalgic: Soup from when you were a kid, just like mom made, can take you back to the good old days and give you a sense of nostalgia. Homemade Chicken & Noodle, a classic, can remind you of the simpler times and help you feel better if you’re sick.
Hydrating: Increase your hydration with soup. Soup contains more water than other meals. It’s easier to drink less water in the colder months, so it’s even more critical to increase your daily water intake.
Soup is good for the soul, can help you lose weight, save money, and feel healthy again! Stop by Babe’s for all of your soup needs. For more information visit our website or give us a call at
815-744-7773. Read below for our weekly soup schedule:
Daily Soup:
Homemade Chili
Homemade Chicken & Dumpling
Loaded Baked Potato
Soup of the Day
Mon - Homemade Chicken & Noodle
Tues - Broccoli Cheddar
Wed - Vegetarian Minestrone
Thurs - Beef Stew
Friday - Stuffed Green Pepper
Sat - Broccoli Cheddar
Sunday Soups
Chicken & Dumpling
Loaded Baked Potato
Sources:
http://www.eatingwell.com/article/291184/why-soup-is-so-good-for-you/
https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/health-wellbeing/diet-nutrition/nutrition/10-reasons-eat-soup
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