5 Soothing, Healthy Broths for Winter
When you’re strapped for time, these scrumptious soups and soothing broths will provide a healthy solution.
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Nothing beats a warm bowl of soup when you’re craving coziness on a cold winter day, but sometimes you don’t have time for chopping and simmering. Luckily, we scoped out five just-like-homemade options from our favorite brands that contain only whole ingredients, plus they’re all packaged in recyclable or BPA-free materials.
Warm Your Bones
Pacific Foods Organic Bone Broth Chicken with Lemongrass contains cider vinegar and rosemary extract for a delicious, protein-packed option you can enjoy anywhere. Just heat up and sip!
$2 to $2.50 per 8 oz, pacificfoods.com
Italian Comfort
Nona Lim Kale and Potato Soup serves up a rich helping of kale and potatoes in veggie broth along with garlic, onions, paprika and cayenne. Just one 6-oz serving contains 35% of your daily value (DV) of vitamin A as well as 45% of your DV of vitamin C and 30% of your DV of iron.
$6, nonalim.com for where to buy
Miso, Pronto!
Satisfy umami cravings with Instant Organic Red Eden Miso Soup, a freeze-dried formula with ingredients like wakame flakes, organic kuzu, organic green onions and red and hacho misos. It comes in portable cubes you simply drop in hot water for slurp-anywhere Japanese. We love that it’s free of MSG, GMOs and chemical additives.
$9.32 per pack of 4, edenfoods.com
Real Flavor
With just 340 milligrams of sodium per serving, Amy’s Organic Light in Sodium Lentil Vegetable Soup gets its mouthwatering flavor from a blend of spices, garlic, bay leaves and pepper. Organic vegetables such as onions, lentils, carrots, celery and potatoes come together in an organic tomato purée for a soup that’s full of nourishing protein, vitamin A and iron.
$3, amys.com
Beautifying Broth
Made using a traditional, low-simmering method, EPIC Provisions Turkey Cranberry Sage Bone Broth tastes as fresh as homemade. This wholesome sipper is rich in collagen, minerals and gelatin, which help to improve the look of skin, hair and nails over time. It also serves up an impressive 9 grams of protein per cup.
$7, epicbar.com
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