Progresso Light Vegetable Noodle Soup

November 19, 2008 | Reviewer: Guest Reviewers

Photo of Progresso Light Vegetable Noodle Soup Price: $1.34 on sale
Serving: 8oz.
Servings per can: About 2
Calories: 60 per serving
Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 35%, 840mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 5%, 13g
Fiber: 16%, 4g
Sugar: 2g
Weight Watchers Points: 0 Points*

Progresso says:A plentiful array of garden vegetables, curly noodles and flavorful herbs and spices you can actually see, Vegetable and Noodle combines the richness of Progresso with the trusted endorsement of Weight Watchers.

Katie says: So far the Progresso Light line of soup has served me well (I’m a huge fan of the Progresso Southwestern Vegetable Soup), so I decided to try the non-southwestern vegetable and noodle variety.

This soup is made up of chicken broth (sorry, vegetarians) packed with celery, carrots, green beans, corn, noodles, peas, and a mix of flavorings and spices. This is also one of the varieties that is available in a microwavable bowl which makes it a really easy option to take for lunch. After only about 3 minutes in the microwave I had a nice steamy bowl of soup waiting for me, and it only took one bite to determine that Progresso had gotten it right again with this soup. One of my all time favorite soups is chicken noodle and this soup pretty much tastes like a classic chicken noodle soup without the pieces of chicken, and I didn’t really miss the chicken because the flavor of everything else was great. The mix of spices is a perfect complement to the chicken broth and I love the choice of the wide spiral noodles.

For a soup that only has 60 calories per serving there was a large amount of veggies and noodles so that you won’t feel like this soup is missing anything. I think you definitely could add chicken to the soup to mix it up a bit, but you don’t need to. The vegetable noodle soup is great just as it is. The nutritional stats are basically the same as the other soups in the light line with 60 calories per cup, 0 weight watchers points, and 4 grams of fiber. As with the other the sodium is a bit high, but not really an issue unless you are on a diet where you have to restrict your sodium intake. I definitely recommend this soup for days when you just want a classic, comforting, and delicious bowl of soup; it will definitely be a regular on my grocery list.

*Same warning as before. Yes, the nutrition profile on this soup has been engineered to be 0 Points for one serving. However, if you eat both servings of this soup you’ll actually use 2 points. Yep, those folks at Progresso are pretty wily. – Editrix

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2 Responses to “Progresso Light Vegetable Noodle Soup”

elizabeth chubbuck on March 12th, 2009

Packed with vegetables? Are you kidding? Are you a Progresso schill?

I weighed out 4 oz of actual content vs water in the entire can!

25 small noodles
15 quarter length green beans
5 peas
10 corn niblets
30 pieces very mushy celery
22 carrot pieces the size of half a die.
In a over a pound? So a serving comes down to less than 2 oz of food.
Of course its LIGHT!! Its all WATER!

And deceptive to say Vegetable and Noodle when the first ingredient is CHICKEN BROTH, which I was misled as a vegetarian!

It should be called Chicken Broth (with vegetable and noodles), because the primary ingredient should be what its called.

We dont call Ice Cream Guar gum though it has about as much in most icecreams as this soup had Vegetables & Noodles.

I am already hungry, after 15 minutes because I basically had a glass of water for lunch that had flecks of color in it.

DO NOT BUY THIS SOUP. IT IS THE BIGGEST RIP OFF!!! YOU ARE SIMPLY BUYING WATER AND SEVERELY OVERCOOKED VEGETABLES THAT HAD NO TASTE. EVEN THE BROTH WAS TASTELESS. WHAT I ATE ERRONEOUSLY BEFORE TOSSING WHEN I REALIZED IT HAD CHICKEN IN IT!!!!
elizabeth chubbuck on March 12th, 2009

rereading the review person, clearly shows they are not someone at home who had this product and write as a food writer would promoting a product