American Heart Association Certified: Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup

Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup is certifed by the American Heart Association. That means this soup meets certian dietary and health requirements for a health diet, and healthy heart. The Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup receives the red check mark of approval because it is low in cholesterol and lacks saturated fat. This makes Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup a healthy choice for anyone concerned about a healthy heart. This soup is also tasty and filling.

American Heath Association Considerations

1. Know and Limit Fats

The Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup fits in with a number of the American Heart Association’s criteria for making healthy food choices. One of those suggestions is to “know and limit fats.” (AHA)

Anyone can eat this soup knowing that there is extremely low-fat, and no types of “bad” fat.

Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup is a low-fat food that can be eaten for lunch or as a pre-dinner appetizer. The Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup contains only one gram of fat in the entire 15 ounce can of soup.

If you split this Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup with someone, you will be consuming a mere half gram of fat, or only one percent of the Percent Daily Value (based on a 2,000 calorie diet).

Even that one gram of fat is a healthy gram. This low-fat food contains zero grams of saturated fat and zero grams of Trans Fat.

2. Reduce High Cholesterol Foods

The American Heart Association also recommends reducing “foods high in dietary cholesterol.” (AHA)

The Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup contains less than five milligrams of cholesterol. This is an extremely low amount of cholesterol to find in a prepared food. The five milligrams makes up only one percent of the Percent Daily Value (based on a 2,000 calorie diet).

3. 25-30 Grams of Dietary Fiber

The American Heart Association also recommends consuming “25-30 Grams of Dietary Fiber” each day. (AHA) The Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup contains four grams of dietary fiber, for 16 percent of the Percent Daily Value (based on a 2,000 calorie diet).

Consumer Considerations

Healthy Choice Country Vegetable Soup is not only healthy as far as the American Heart Association is concerned, it’s also tasty and filling. Dieters can eat this soup and feel satisfied.

The five grams of protein from the kidney beans helps make this a filling soup, and a good choice for nutrition.

This soup is also one of the vegetables soups available that is actually made with vegetable broth, not animal-derived broth.

As with any canned soup, the sodium count may be a negative consideration for those with high blood pressure. One serving contains 480mg of sodium, or 20 percent of the Percent Daily Value (based on a 2,000 calorie diet).

Sources

American Heart Association, http://www.americanheart.org
Healthy Choice Product Labeling