Homemade Soup is Good For You - Here’s Why

Soup is Good For You - Here’s Why

Soup has always been a favorite ever since I can remember. It’s both comforting and delicious. My mom always told me that I alway asked for soup, even wanted soup for breakfast!
Soup gives us the opportunity to easily get many different ingredients and diversity is essential. The key to health is a healthy digestive system and that means a healthy gut microbiome. It’s been proven that the more diverse our diet in terms of plant fibers, the healthier our gut microbiome.

Making a healthy soup is one of the easiest ways to incorporate many different vegetables and even nuts, which also count as plant fibers. You can easily add 5-10 different vegetables to your homemade soup. 

In addition soup can: 

• add vitamins and minerals

• allow you to feel more full and eat more with fewer calories

• vitamins and minerals don`t get discarded in the sink

• help us keep hydrated, especially during winter when many don't drink enough water

• make perfect leftovers

• be frozen to have on hand

• be a perfect pairing with a healthy salad

• be comforting and warming

• be very delicious :)