Enjoy some soup
As the weather turns colder, who doesn’t like a hot bowl of soup? Is soup healthy? What nutritional value does soup have? Actually, soup can be a healthy addition to your diet. What are some health benefits of enjoying that bowl of soup on a cold day? Vegetables – many soups are either loaded with vegetables or the base of the soup is made from vegetables. Many Americans are low on veggies and soup is an easy way to add some veggies to your day. If you have a toddler who is fussy about eating vegetables, that toddler may eat the smaller pieces of the soft vegetables in vegetable soup. Even kids who won’t eat tomatoes might enjoy a bowl of tomato soup. And as I have noted before, cooking some vegetables actually makes them healthier. The lycopene in tomato soup is better absorbed than the lycopene in a raw tomato. Enjoy some split pea soup and you added veggies and beta carotene (vitamin A) to your day. As noted i...