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Campbell's Cuts Ingredients From Its Chicken Noodle Soup

Cans of Campbell's soup are pictured in Washington on Jan. 8, 2014. (J. David Ake/AP)
Cans of Campbell's soup are pictured in Washington on Jan. 8, 2014. (J. David Ake/AP)

Campbell’s soup is changing the ingredients in its chicken noodle soup. The new version contains 20 ingredients, compared to 30 in the previous version.

For a homemade alternative, try these recipes from Here & Now’s resident chef Kathy Gunst:

What’s In The New Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup

List from The New York Times

Chicken stock

Enriched pasta (wheat flour, egg whites, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)

Carrots

Chicken meat

Chicken fat

Salt

Modified food starch

Water

Dehydrated mechanically separated chicken

Flavoring

Yeast extract

Dehydrated chicken broth

Sugar

Beta carotene for color

Dehydrated onions

Soy protein isolate

Sodium phosphate

Dehydrated chicken

Onion extract

Garlic extract

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