Classic Chicken Soup — OKAY
Munch or Dump rates Classic Chicken Soup by New Covent Garden Soup Co OKAY — score 60/90.
A genuinely simple fresh soup made from real recognizable ingredients with no artificial additives, but it's watery, salty, and light on actual chicken.
Why this verdict
- Short list of real, recognizable ingredients with no artificial additives
- No added sugar and no refined-oil/emulsifier stack
- Only 5% chicken; it's largely water and potato
- Salt appears several ways (added salt, salted butter, salted stock)
- Cornflour thickener and yeast extract are the only mild processing signals
Ingredients (12)
- Water (safe) — Bulking agent that keeps this a low-fat spread; inert.
- Potato (20%) (safe) — Whole starchy vegetable, adds body and some potassium.
- ONION) (safe) — Whole vegetable, prebiotic fiber.
- Chicken (5%) (safe) — Real animal protein, but only a small proportion of the soup.
- Single cream (milk) (4%) (moderate) — Real dairy fat for richness; adds saturated fat.
- Roast chicken stock (moderate) — Flavor base built from roast chicken, potato, yeast extract and salt; boosts sodium.
- Cornflour (moderate) — Refined starch used as a thickener; minor processing signal.
- Salted butter (milk) (moderate) — Real dairy fat plus more salt.
- YEAST EXTRACT (safe) — Concentrated deactivated yeast that supplies natural glutamates for the savory flavor plus B vitamins; a whole-ish food, not a synthetic additive.
- Garlic Puree (safe) — Real garlic, flavour and minor benefit.
- Salt (moderate) — Adds sodium; fine in moderation but the main reason to watch portion size.
- black pepper (safe) — A simple spice for flavor.